Optimization of control parameters for genetic algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
Information retrieval
Genetic programming: on the programming of computers by means of natural selection
Genetic programming: on the programming of computers by means of natural selection
Overview of the first TREC conference
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An evolutionary approach to combinatorial optimization problems
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Adding compression to a full-text retrieval system
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Optimization with genetic algorithm hybrids that use local searches
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Inverted files versus signature files for text indexing
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Exploring the similarity space
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Term-ordered query evaluation versus document-ordered query evaluation for large document databases
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Results and challenges in Web search evaluation
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
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Relevance ranking for one to three term queries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Evaluating evaluation measure stability
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A vector space model for automatic indexing
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Evaluation of the 2-Poisson model as a basis for using term frequency data in searching
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Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
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Improved retrieval effectiveness through impact transformation
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Set-based model: a new approach for information retrieval
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Reexamining tf.idf based information retrieval with genetic programming
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Using graded relevance assessments in IR evaluation
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An analysis of the behavior of a class of genetic adaptive systems.
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Ranking Function Optimization for Effective Web Search by Genetic Programming: An Empirical Study
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Applying online gradient descent search to genetic programming for object recognition
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A generic ranking function discovery framework by genetic programming for information retrieval
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An evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes in information retrieval
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AdaRank: a boosting algorithm for information retrieval
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Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank
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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
Artificial Intelligence Review
Refining component description by leveraging user query logs
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Semi-supervised document retrieval
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BBM: bayesian browsing model from petabyte-scale data
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Term-Weighting in Information Retrieval using Genetic Programming: A three stage process
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Learning in a pairwise term-term proximity framework for information retrieval
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Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval
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Post-rank reordering: resolving preference misalignments between search engines and end users
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Learning to rank using evolutionary computation: immune programming or genetic programming?
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
An immune programming-based ranking function discovery approach for effective information retrieval
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Knowledge transfer for cross domain learning to rank
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AICS'09 Proceedings of the 20th Irish conference on Artificial intelligence and cognitive science
An adaptive learning to rank algorithm: Learning automata approach
Decision Support Systems
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New general purpose ranking functions are discovered using genetic programming. The TREC WSJ collection was chosen as a training set. A baseline comparison function was chosen as the best of inner product, probability, cosine, and Okapi BM25. An elitist genetic algorithm with a population size 100 was run 13 times for 100 generations and the best performing algorithms chosen from these. The best learned functions, when evaluated against the best baseline function (BM25), demonstrate some significant performance differences, with improvements in mean average precision as high as 32% observed on one TREC collection not used in training. In no test is BM25 shown to significantly outperform the best learned function.