Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Applying Data Mining to Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for High Performance Text Retrieval
ICDM '06 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Data Mining
Query dependent ranking using K-nearest neighbor
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning to rank with partially-labeled data
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning to rank at query-time using association rules
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Towards recency ranking in web search
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
An empirical study on learning to rank of tweets
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Bagging gradient-boosted trees for high precision, low variance ranking models
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Estimation methods for ranking recent information
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Learning to rank using query-level regression
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
A pairwise ranking based approach to learning with positive and unlabeled examples
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
COLT'06 Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Learning Theory
The Impacts of Structural Difference and Temporality of Tweets on Retrieval Effectiveness
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Clustering-based transduction for learning a ranking model with limited human labels
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
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By incorporating diverse sources of evidence of relevance, learning to rank has been widely applied to real-time Twitter search, where users are interested in fresh relevant messages. Such approaches usually rely on a set of training queries to learn a general ranking model, which we believe that the benefits brought by learning to rank may not have been fully exploited as the characteristics and aspects unique to the given target queries are ignored. In this paper, we propose to further improve the retrieval performance of learning to rank for real-time Twitter search, by taking the difference between queries into consideration. In particular, we learn a query-biased ranking model with a semi-supervised transductive learning algorithm so that the query-specific features, e.g. the unique expansion terms, are utilized to capture the characteristics of the target query. This query-biased ranking model is combined with the general ranking model to produce the final ranked list of tweets in response to the given target query. Extensive experiments on the standard TREC Tweets11 collection show that our proposed query-biased learning to rank approach outperforms strong baseline, namely the conventional application of the state-of-the-art learning to rank algorithms.