Feature selection for ranking

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 407-414

  Geng, Xiubo ^a,b   Liu, Tie Yan ^a   Qin, Tao ^a,c   Li, Hang ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Information retrieval; Learning to rank

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LOSS FUNCTION; RANKING MODELS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 36448949756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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