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CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters
Optimising the parameters of ranking functions with respect to standard IR rank-dependent cost functions has eluded satisfactory analytical treatment. We build on recent advances ...
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, S...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A new family of online algorithms for category ranking
We describe a new family of topic-ranking algorithms for multi-labeled documents. The motivation for the algorithms stems from recent advances in online learning algorithms. The a...
Koby Crammer, Yoram Singer
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
SODA
2008
ACM
131views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
PageRank and the random surfer model
In recent years there has been considerable interest in analyzing random graph models for the Web. We consider two such models - the Random Surfer model, introduced by Blum et al....
Prasad Chebolu, Páll Melsted
BMCBI
2005
152views more  BMCBI 2005»
13 years 8 months ago
Ranking the whole MEDLINE database according to a large training set using text indexing
Background: The MEDLINE database contains over 12 million references to scientific literature, ut 3/4 of recent articles including an abstract of the publication. Retrieval of ent...
Brian P. Suomela, Miguel A. Andrade