Learning to rank at query-time using association rules

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 267-274

  Veloso, Adriano ^a   Almeida, Humberto M ^a   Gonçalves, Marcos ^a   Meira Jr , Wagner ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; BENCHMARKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

ART METHODS; EXPERIMENTATION; LEARNING TO RANKS; NOVEL METHODS; PRE-PROCESSING; QUERY TERMS; RANKING FUNCTIONS; RANKING METHODS; RANKING PERFORMANCES; RETRIEVAL APPLICATIONS; SOME APPLICATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATIONS; TIME USING; TRAINING DATUMS;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 57349151506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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