Learning to rank for freshness and relevance

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 95-104

  Dai, Na ^a   Shokouhi, Milad ^b   Davison, Brian D ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freshness ranking; Query classification; Temporal profiles

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SEARCH ENGINES;

FEEDBACK DOCUMENTS; FRESHNESS RANKING; LEARNING TO RANK; QUERY CLASSIFICATION; TEMPORAL ASPECTS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL PROFILE; USER EXPERIENCE;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052107363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2009933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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