Web table extraction, retrieval, and augmentation: A survey

S Zhang, K Balog - ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and …, 2020‏ - dl.acm.org
Tables are powerful and popular tools for organizing and manipulating data. A vast number
of tables can be found on the Web, which represent a valuable knowledge resource. The …

User simulation for evaluating information access systems

K Balog, CX Zhai - Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
With the emergence of various information access systems exhibiting increasing complexity,
there is a critical need for sound and scalable means of automatic evaluation. To address …

Unbiased learning to rank with unbiased propensity estimation

Q Ai, K Bi, C Luo, J Guo, WB Croft - The 41st international ACM SIGIR …, 2018‏ - dl.acm.org
Learning to rank with biased click data is a well-known challenge. A variety of methods has
been explored to debias click data for learning to rank such as click models, result …

Learning to rank with selection bias in personal search

X Wang, M Bendersky, D Metzler… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
Click-through data has proven to be a critical resource for improving search ranking quality.
Though a large amount of click data can be easily collected by search engines, various …

Deeprank: A new deep architecture for relevance ranking in information retrieval

L Pang, Y Lan, J Guo, J Xu, J Xu, X Cheng - Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017‏ - dl.acm.org
This paper concerns a deep learning approach to relevance ranking in information retrieval
(IR). Existing deep IR models such as DSSM and CDSSM directly apply neural networks to …

Yahoo! learning to rank challenge overview

O Chapelle, Y Chang - Proceedings of the learning to rank …, 2011‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning to rank for information retrieval has gained a lot of interest in the recent years but
there is a lack for large real-world datasets to benchmark algorithms. That led us to publicly …

[کتاب][B] Learning to rank for information retrieval and natural language processing

H Li - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Learning to rank refers to machine learning techniques for training a model in a ranking task.
Learning to rank is useful for many applications in information retrieval, natural language …

Ad hoc table retrieval using semantic similarity

S Zhang, K Balog - Proceedings of the 2018 world wide web conference, 2018‏ - dl.acm.org
We introduce and address the problem of ad hoc table retrieval: answering a keyword query
with a ranked list of tables. This task is not only interesting on its own account, but is also …

Search personalization using machine learning

H Yoganarasimhan - Management Science, 2020‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Firms typically use query-based search to help consumers find information/products on their
websites. We consider the problem of optimally ranking a set of results shown in response to …

The ordinal nature of emotions: An emerging approach

GN Yannakakis, R Cowie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational representation of everyday emotional states is a challenging task and,
arguably, one of the most fundamental for affective computing. Standard practice in emotion …