Due to the fast growth of the Web and the difficulties in finding desired information, efficient and effective information retrieval systems have become more important than ever, and the search engine has become an essential tool formany people. The ranker, a central component in every search engine, is responsible for the matching between processed queries and indexed documents. Because of its central role, great attention has been paid to the research and development of ranking technologies. In addition, ranking is also pivotal for manyother information retrieval applications, such as collaborative filtering, definition ranking, question answering, multimedia retrieval, text summarization, and online advertisement. Leveraging machine learning technologies in the ranking process has led to innovative and more effective ranking models, and eventually to a completely new research area called “learning to rank”. Liu firstgives a comprehensive review of the major approaches to learning to rank. Foreach approach he presents the basic framework, with example algorithms, and he discusses its advantages and disadvantages. He continues with some recent advances in learning to rank that cannot be simply categorized into the three major approaches – these include relational ranking, query-dependent ranking, transfer ranking, and semisupervised ranking. His presentation is completed by several examples that apply these technologies to solve real information retrieval problems, and by theoretical discussions on guarantees for ranking performance. This book is written for researchers and graduate students in both information retrieval and machine learning. They will find here the only comprehensive description of the state of the art in a field that has driven the recent advances in search engine development. Only comprehensive overview of a key innovative technology for search engine development Written by one of the leading authorities in this field Combines scientific theoretical soundness with broad development and application experiences INDICE: 1. Ranking in IR.- 2. Learning to Rank for IR.- 3. Regression/Classification: Conventional ML Approach to Learning to Rank.- 4. Ordinal Regression: A Pointwise Approach to Learning to Rank.- 5. Preference Learning: A Pairwise Approach to Learning to Rank.- 6. Listwise Ranking: A Listwise APproach toLearning to Rank.- 7. Advanced Topics.- 8. LETOR: A Benchmark Dataset for Learning to Rank.- 9. SUmmary and Outlook.
- ISBN: 978-3-642-14266-6
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés