Search engines that learn online

Open Access
Authors
  • K. Hofmann
Publication date 2011
Book title SIGIR'11
Book subtitle proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval ; July 24-28, 2011, Beijing, China
ISBN
  • 9781450307574
Event 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2011)
Pages (from-to) 1313
Number of pages 1
Publisher New York, NY: ACM
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract The goal of my research is to develop self-learning search engines, that can learn online, i.e., directly from interactions with actual users. Such systems can continuously adapt to user preferences throughout their lifetime, leading to better search performance in settings where expensive manual tuning is infeasible. Challenges that are addressed in my work include the development of effective online learning to rank algorithms for IR, user aspects, and evaluation.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010176 (Final published version)
Downloads
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