Search, recommendation, and online advertising are the three most important information- providing mechanisms on the web. These information seeking techniques, satisfying users' …
As the final stage of the multi-stage recommender system (MRS), re-ranking directly affects user experience and satisfaction by rearranging the input ranking lists, and thereby plays a …
B Liu, Y Wu, F Zhang, Y Liu, Z Wang, C Li… - Information Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
In legal case retrieval, existing work has shown that human-mediated conversational search can improve users' search experience. In practice, a suitable workflow can provide …
Existing work on search result diversification typically falls into the “next document” paradigm, that is, selecting the next document based on the ones already chosen. A …
This paper concerns reinforcement learning~(RL) of the document ranking models for information retrieval~(IR). One branch of the RL approaches to ranking formalize the …
X Qin, Z Dou, JR Wen - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Search results returned by search engines need to be diversified in order to satisfy different information needs of different users. Several supervised learning models have been …
Recommender systems (RS) are vital for managing information overload and delivering personalized content, responding to users' diverse information needs. The emergence of …
J Zhou, E Agichtein - Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020, 2020 - dl.acm.org
To support complex search tasks, where the initial information requirements are complex or may change during the search, a search engine must adapt the information delivery as the …
In light of recent advances in adversarial learning, there has been strong and continuing interest in exploring how to perform adversarial learning-to-rank. The previous adversarial …