Ranking refinement and its application to information retrieval

Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web 2008, WWW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 397-406

  Jin, Rong ^a   Valizadegan, Hamed ^a   Li, Hang ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Background information; Boosting; Incremental learning; Learning to rank

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; BASE-LINES; BOOSTING; BOOSTING ALGORITHMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FEEDBACKS]; INCREMENTAL LEARNING; LEARNING TO RANK; RANKING FUNCTIONS; RANKING REFINEMENTS; TWO SOURCES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57349181197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1367497.1367552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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