Query chains: Learning to rank from implicit feedback

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 239-248

  Radlinski, Filip ^a   Joachims, Thorsten ^a  

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

Author keywords

Clickthrough data; Implicit feedback; Machine learning; Search engines; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

CLICKTHROUGH DATA; IMPLICIT FEEDBACK; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 32344431861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1081870.1081899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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