Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 133-142

  Joachims, Thorsten ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA RECORDING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION;

CLICKTHROUGH DATA; METASEARCH ENGINE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0242456822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/775047.775067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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