Listwise approach to learning to rank: theory and algorithm.

Fen Xia Tie-Yan Liu Jue Wang Wensheng Zhang Hang Li

Published in: ICML (2008)

Keyphrases

learning to rank
loss function
balancing exploration and exploitation
ranking functions
information retrieval
ranking svm
evaluation measures
pairwise
active learning
supervised learning
expectation maximization
document retrieval
learning to rank algorithms
direct optimization