Flexible sample selection strategies for transfer learning in ranking

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 502-512

  Duh, Kevin ^a   Fujino, Akinori ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density ratio estimation; Functional change assumption; Rank algorithms; Sample selection; Transfer learning

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL COMPONENT; DATA SETS; DENSITY RATIO; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE ASSUMPTION; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; LABELED TRAINING DATA; LEARNING TO RANK; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MICROSOFT; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; OPEN PROBLEMS; SAMPLE SELECTION; TARGET DOMAIN; TRAINING SAMPLE; TRANSFER LEARNING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84859163982     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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