Title
RankEval: An Evaluation and Analysis Framework for Learning-to-Rank Solutions
Abstract
In this demo paper we propose RankEval, an open-source tool for the analysis and evaluation of Learning-to-Rank (LtR) models based on ensembles of regression trees. Gradient Boosted Regression Trees (GBRT) is a flexible statistical learning technique for classification and regression at the state of the art for training effective LtR solutions. Indeed, the success of GBRT fostered the development of several open-source LtR libraries targeting efficiency of the learning phase and effectiveness of the resulting models. However, these libraries offer only very limited help for the tuning and evaluation of the trained models. In addition, the implementations provided for even the most traditional IR evaluation metrics differ from library to library, thus making the objective evaluation and comparison between trained models a difficult task. RankEval addresses these issues by providing a common ground for LtR libraries that offers useful and interoperable tools for a comprehensive comparison and in-depth analysis of ranking models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3077136.3084140
SIGIR
Keywords
Field
DocType
Learning to Rank, evaluation, analysis
Learning to rank,Data mining,IR evaluation,Interoperability,Computer science,Implementation,Statistical learning,Artificial intelligence,Ranking,Regression,Information retrieval,Common ground,Machine learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5022-8
2
0.37
References 
Authors
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claudio Lucchese1110473.76
Cristina Ioana Muntean2328.28
Franco Maria Nardini331436.52
Raffaele Perego41471108.91
Salvatore Trani5858.68