Empirical exploitation of click data for task specific ranking

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1086-1095

  Dong, Anlei ^a   Chang, Yi ^a   Ji, Shihao ^a   Liao, Ciya ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Zheng, Zhaohui ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CRITICAL PROBLEMS; DATA DISTRIBUTION; DATA EXTRACTION; NAVIGATIONAL QUERIES; NOISE INFORMATION; QUERY SEGMENTS; RANK FUNCTIONS; TRAINING DATA;

DATA MINING;

EID: 80053400193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699648.1699654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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