Semi-supervised learning to rank with preference regularization

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 269-278

  Szummer, Martin ^a   Yilmaz, Emine ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

LambdaRank; learning to rank; partially labeled data; regularization; semi supervised

Indexed keywords

LABELED DATA; LAMBDARANK; LEARNING TO RANK; REGULARIZATION; SEMI-SUPERVISED;

ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

SUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 83055187746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063576.2063620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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