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Learning to rank has been intensively studied and widely applied in information retrieval. Typically, a global ranking function is learned from a set of labeled data, which can achieve good performance on average but may be suboptimal for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Qingyao Ai , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , W. Bruce Croft

In any ranking system, the retrieval model outputs a single score for a document based on its belief on how relevant it is to a given search query. While retrieval models have continued to improve with the introduction of increasingly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Daniel Cohen , Bhaskar Mitra , Oleg Lesota , Navid Rekabsaz , Carsten Eickhoff

Learning to Rank (LTR) methods generally assume that each document in a top-K ranking is presented in an equal format. However, previous work has shown that users' perceptions of relevance can be changed by varying presentations, i.e.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Norman Knyazev , Harrie Oosterhuis

The purpose of modeling document relevance for search engines is to rank better in subsequent searches. Document-specific historical click-through rates can be important features in a dynamic ranking system which updates as we accumulate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Richard Demsyn-Jones

Over the past decades, researchers had put lots of effort investigating ranking techniques used to rank query results retrieved during information retrieval, or to rank the recommended products in recommender systems. In this project, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jiashu Wu

Domain-specific synonyms occur in many specialized search tasks, such as when searching medical documents, legal documents, and software engineering artifacts. We replicate prior work on ranking domain-specific synonyms in the consumer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Andrew Yates , Michael Unterkalmsteiner

Large language models (LLMs) are incredible and versatile tools for text-based tasks that have enabled countless, previously unimaginable, applications. Retrieval models, in contrast, have not yet seen such capable general-purpose models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Julian Killingback , Hamed Zamani

Combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with search engine services marks a significant shift in the field of services computing, opening up new possibilities to enhance how we search for and retrieve information, understand content, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Haoyi Xiong , Jiang Bian , Yuchen Li , Xuhong Li , Mengnan Du , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Sumi Helal

In this paper, we try to answer the question of how to improve the state-of-the-art methods for relevance ranking in web search by query segmentation. Here, by query segmentation it is meant to segment the input query into segments,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Haocheng Wu , Yunhua Hu , Hang Li , Enhong Chen

Rapid increase of digitized document give birth to high demand of document image retrieval. While conventional document image retrieval approaches depend on complex OCR-based text recognition and text similarity detection, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Mao Tan , Si-Ping Yuan , Yong-Xin Su

Nowadays, according to the increasingly increasing information, the importance of its presentation is also increasing. The internet has become one of the main sources of information for users and their favorite topics. It also provides…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Mohammad Moradi , Elham Ghanbari , Mehrdad Maeen , Sasan Harifi

The majority of Semantic Web search engines retrieve information by focusing on the use of concepts and relations restricted to the query provided by the user. By trying to guess the implicit meaning between these concepts and relations,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-28 Manuel Rojas

A fundamental goal of search engines is to identify, given a query, documents that have relevant text. This is intrinsically difficult because the query and the document may use different vocabulary, or the document may contain query words…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Bhaskar Mitra , Eric Nalisnick , Nick Craswell , Rich Caruana

With the recent advancements in information technology there has been a huge surge in amount of data available. But information retrieval technology has not been able to keep up with this pace of information generation resulting in over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Nishant Nikhil , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

A large part of the hidden web resides in weblog servers. New content is produced in a daily basis and the work of traditional search engines turns to be insufficient due to the nature of weblogs. This work summarizes the structure of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-03-25 A. Kritikopoulos , M. Sideri , I. Varlamis

Exploiting information induced from (query-specific) clustering of top-retrieved documents has long been proposed as a means for improving precision at the very top ranks of the returned results. We present a novel language model approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Oren Kurland , Eyal Krikon

While in a classification or a regression setting a label or a value is assigned to each individual document, in a ranking setting we determine the relevance ordering of the entire input document list. This difference leads to the notion of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qingyao Ai , Xuanhui Wang , Sebastian Bruch , Nadav Golbandi , Michael Bendersky , Marc Najork

In information retrieval, learning to rank constructs a machine-based ranking model which given a query, sorts the search results by their degree of relevance or importance to the query. Neural networks have been successfully applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Baiyang Wang , Diego Klabjan

In this work, we propose a theory for information matching. It is motivated by the observation that retrieval is about the relevance matching between two sets of properties (features), namely, the information need representation and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Jagadeesh Gorla , Stephen Robertson , Jun Wang , Tamas Jambor

The application of Deep Neural Networks for ranking in search engines may obviate the need for the extensive feature engineering common to current learning-to-rank methods. However, we show that combining simple relevance matching features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Aaron Jaech , Hetunandan Kamisetty , Eric Ringger , Charlie Clarke