Feature selection for ranking using boosted trees

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2025-2028

  Pan, Feng ^a   Converse, Tim ^a   Ahn, David ^a   Salvetti, Franco ^a   Donato, Gianluca ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosted trees; Feature selection; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD ELIMINATION; BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES; BOOSTED TREES; FEATURE COMPUTATION; FEATURE MODELS; FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; FEATURE SIMILARITIES; MODELING PARAMETERS; RANDOMIZED APPROACH; RANKING FUNCTIONS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 74549171478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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