CIKM
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
RankBoost is a recently proposed algorithm for learning ranking functions. It is simple to implement and has strong justifications from computational learning theory. We describe...
VLDB
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
We investigate the problem of ranking answers to a database query when many tuples are returned. We adapt and apply principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval f...
COLT
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
The problem of ranking, in which the goal is to learn a real-valued ranking function that induces a ranking or ordering over an instance space, has recently gained attention in mac...
P2P
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems have hundreds of thousands of users sharing petabytes of data, however, their search functionality is limited. In general, query results contain...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2006
ACM
Content-targeted advertising, the task of automatically associating ads to a Web page, constitutes a key Web monetization strategy nowadays. Further, it introduces new challenging...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
— Learning to rank has become a popular method for web search ranking. Traditionally, expert-judged examples are the major training resource for machine learned web ranking, whic...
TACAS
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2010
Springer
Ranking function synthesis is a key aspect to the success of modern termination provers for imperative programs. While it is wellknown how to generate linear ranking functions for ...
WSDM
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
2010
IEEE
An ever-increasing amount of data and semantic knowledge in the domain of life sciences is bringing about new data management challenges. In this paper we focus on adding the seman...