A Novel framework for ranking model adaptation

Proc. - 7th Web Information Systems and Applications Conference, WISA 2010, Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology, SWON 2010, Workshop on Electronic Government Technology and Application, EGTA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 149-154

  Cai, Peng ^a   Zhou, Aoying ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Learning to rank; Listwise; Query weight; Ranking model adaptation

Indexed keywords

BASELINE MODELS; BENCHMARK DATASETS; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; IMPORTANCE WEIGHTS; INSTANCE WEIGHTING; LEARNING TO RANK; LISTWISE; OPTIMAL MODEL; QUERY WEIGHT; RANKING ALGORITHM; RANKING MODEL; SEARCH TASKS; TARGET DOMAIN; TRAINING DATA;

ALGORITHMS; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 78149252019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WISA.2010.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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