Trada: Tree based ranking function adaptation

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1143-1152

  Chen, Keke ^a   Lu, Rongqing ^a   Wong, C K ^a   Sun, Gordon ^a   Heck, Larry ^a   Tseng, Belle ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning to rank; Model adaptation; Regression tree; Web search ranking

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; GRADIENT BOOSTING; LEARNING TO RANK; MODEL ADAPTATION; MODELING METHOD; NEW APPROACHES; QUALITY RANKING; RANKING APPROACH; RANKING FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION TREE; TARGET DOMAIN; TRAINING DATA; TREE-BASED; TREE-BASED STRUCTURES; UNIQUE FEATURES; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCH RANKING; WEB SEARCHES; WEIGHT TRAINING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 70349250040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1458082.1458233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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