Weight-based boosting model for cross-domain relevance ranking adaptation

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Abstract

Adaptation techniques based on importance weighting were shown effective for RankSVM and RankNet, viz., each training instance is assigned a target weight denoting its importance to the target domain and incorporated into loss functions. In this work, we extend RankBoost using importance weighting framework for ranking adaptation. We find it non-trivial to incorporate the target weight into the boosting-based ranking algorithms because it plays a contradictory role against the innate weight of boosting, namely source weight that focuses on adjusting source-domain ranking accuracy. Our experiments show that among three variants, the additive weight-based RankBoost, which dynamically balances the two types of weights, significantly and consistently outperforms the baseline trained directly on the source domain.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 33rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2011, Proceedings
EditorsPaul Clough, Colum Foley, Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, Gareth J.F. Jones, Wessel Kraaij, Vanessa Murdoch
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages562-567
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783642201608
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2011 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 18 Apr 201121 Apr 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6611 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2011
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period18/04/1121/04/11

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