McRank: Learning to rank using multiple classification and gradient boosting

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20 - Proceedings of the 2007 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Li, Ping ^a   Burges, Christopher J C ^b   Wu, Qiang ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BOOSTING TREES; CLASS PROBABILITIES; GRADIENT BOOSTING; MULTIPLE CLASSIFICATION; ORDINAL CLASSIFICATION; QUALITY MEASURES; RANKING PROBLEMS; RELEVANCE RANKING; TREE ALGORITHMS; WEB SEARCHES;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85162006799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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