Ranking model adaptation for domain-specific search

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 745-758

  Geng, Bo ^a   Yang, Linjun ^b   Xu, Chao ^a   Hua, Xian Sheng ^b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

domain adaptation; Information retrieval; learning to rank; support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; FEATURE SPACE; INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; LABELED DATA; LARGE SCALE DATA; LEARNING TO RANK; RANKING MODEL; SUPPORT VECTOR; TRAINING COSTS; TRAINING MODEL; VERTICAL SEARCHES;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84863232701     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.252     Document Type: Article

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