Query Chains: Learning to Rank from Implicit Feedback

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This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform a sequence, or chain, of queries with a similar information need. Using query chains, we generate new types of preference judgments from search engine logs, thus taking advantage of user intelligence in reformulating queries. To validate our method we perform a controlled user study comparing generated preference judgments to explicit relevance judgments. We also implemented a real-world search engine to test our approach, using a modified ranking SVM to learn an improved ranking function from preference data. Our results demonstrate significant improvements in the ranking given by the search engine. The learned rankings outperform both a static ranking function, as well as one trained without considering query chains.
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Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, H.3.3

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/111081

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0605035
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0605035
 Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), ACM, 2005

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