Learning to rank with document ranks and scores

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 478-483

  Pan, Yan ^a   Luo, Hai Xia ^a   Tang, Yong ^b   Huang, Chang Qin ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boosting algorithm; Information retrieval; Learning to rank; Loss function; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATA; BOOSTING ALGORITHM; LEARNING TO RANK; LOSS FUNCTION; MACHINE LEARNING; MACHINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES; PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RANKING FUNCTIONS; RELEVANCE SCORE; RESEARCH TOPICS; SUB-OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 79952450717     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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