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IR
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
IR
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Statistical query expansion for sentence retrieval and its effects on weak and strong queries
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
David E. Losada
MEDES
2009
ACM
14 years 9 days ago
Web page ranking based on fuzzy and learning automata
The main goal of web pages ranking is to find the interrelated pages. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm called FPR-DLA. In the proposed method learning automata is assigned...
Zohreh Anari, Mohammad Reza Meybodi, Babak Anari
AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Semi-Supervised Ensemble Ranking
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft