Learning effective ranking functions for newsgroup search

Proceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 394-401

  Xi, Wensi ^a   Lind, Jesper ^b   Brill, Eric ^b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Linear regression; Machine learning; Newsgroup search; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WORLD WIDE WEB;

LINEAR REGRESSION; NEWSGROUP SEARCH; RANKING FUNCTIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 8644235236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008992.1009060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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