Portfolio theory of information retrieval

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 115-122

  Wang, Jun ^a   Zhu, Jianhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Document ranking under uncertainty; Mean variance analysis; Modern portfolio theory; Risk management; The probability ranking principle

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT RANKING; ECONOMIC THEORIES; FINANCIAL MARKET; GENERAL SITUATION; MEAN-VARIANCE ANALYSIS; MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY; PORTFOLIO THEORIES; RANK ORDER; RELEVANCE PREDICTION; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; RISK LEVELS; TEXT RETRIEVAL;

ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RISK ANALYSIS;

EID: 72449155619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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