Learning to rank only using training data from related domain

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 162-169

  Gao, Wei ^a   Cai, Peng ^b   Wong, Kam Fai ^a   Zhou, Aoying ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Domain adaptation; Instance weighting; Learning to rank; RankNet; RankSVM; Related domain

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN ADAPTATION; INSTANCE WEIGHTING; LEARNING TO RANK; RANKNET; RANKSVM; RELATED DOMAIN;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956027391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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