Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 585-593

  Taylor, Michael ^a   Zaragoza, Hugo ^b   Craswell, Nick ^a   Robertson, Stephen ^a   Burges, Chris ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Effectiveness measures; Evaluation; Optimisation; Ranking; Scoring

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

RANKING FUNCTIONS; TRAINING SETS;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 34547617682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183614.1183698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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