On domain similarity and effectiveness of adapting-to-rank

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1601-1604

  Chen, Keke ^a   Bai, Jing ^b   Reddy, Srihari ^b   Tseng, Belle ^b  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning to rank; Model adaptation; Similarity measure

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN ADAPTATION; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; LABELED TRAINING DATA; LEARNING TO RANK; MODEL ADAPTATION; SAMPLE DISTRIBUTIONS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; TWO DOMAINS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 74549166029     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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