Title
Learning to rank by optimizing expected reciprocal rank
Abstract
Learning to rank is one of the most hot research areas in information retrieval, among which listwise approach is an important research direction and the methods that directly optimizing evaluation metrics in listwise approach have been used for optimizing some important ranking evaluation metrics, such as MAP, NDCG and etc. In this paper, the structural SVMs method is employed to optimize the Expected Reciprocal Rank(ERR) criterion which is named SVMERR for short. It is compared with state-of-the-art algorithms. Experimental results show that SVMERR outperforms other methods on OHSUMED dataset and TD2003 dataset, which also indicate that optimizing ERR criterion could improve the ranking performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-25631-8_9
AIRS
Keywords
Field
DocType
reciprocal rank,td2003 dataset,ranking performance,ohsumed dataset,optimizing err criterion,expected reciprocal rank,hot research area,listwise approach,important research direction,optimizing evaluation metrics,important ranking evaluation metrics,information retrieval,learning to rank
Learning to rank,Data mining,Reciprocal,Ranking,Computer science,Support vector machine,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7097
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ping Zhang110.68
Hongfei Lin2768122.52
Yuan Lin310416.38
Jiajin Wu4163.93