On composition of a federated web search result page: Using online users to provide pairwise preference for heterogeneous verticals

Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 715-724

  Kumar Ponnuswami, Ashok ^a   Pattabiraman, Kumaresh ^a   Wu, Qiang ^a   Gilad Bachrach, Ran ^a   Kanungo, Tapas ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Federated web search; Heterogeneous verticals; Machine learning; Pairwise preference from clicks; Randomized flights

Indexed keywords

FEDERATED WEB SEARCH; HETEROGENEOUS VERTICALS; MACHINE-LEARNING; PAIRWISE PREFERENCE FROM CLICKS; RANDOMIZED FLIGHTS;

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RATING; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 79952424525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1935826.1935922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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