Learning to Order Things

@inproceedings{citeulike:415391, abstract = {There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order, given feedback in the form of preference judgments, i.e., statements to the effect that one instance should be ranked ahead of another. We outline a two-stage approach in which one first learns by conventional means a preference function, of the form PREF(u; v), which indicates whether it is advisable to rank u before v. New instances are...}, author = {Cohen, William W. and Schapire, Robert E. and Singer, Yoram }, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems}, citeulike-article-id = {415391}, editor = {Jordan, Michael I. and Kearns, Michael J. and Solla, Sara A. }, keywords = {learning2rank, ml}, posted-at = {2008-06-16 15:08:00}, priority = {3}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, title = {Learning to Order Things}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cohen98learning.html}, volume = {10}, year = {1998} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:415391 L3 - citeulike-article-id:415391 TI - Learning to Order Things T2 - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems VL - 10 PB - The MIT Press N2 - There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order, given feedback in the form of preference judgments, i.e., statements to the effect that one instance should be ranked ahead of another. We outline a two-stage approach in which one first learns by conventional means a preference function, of the form PREF(u; v), which indicates whether it is advisable to rank u before v. New instances are... KW - learning2rank KW - ml AU - Cohen, William AU - Schapire, Robert AU - Singer, Yoram A2 - Jordan, Michael A2 - Kearns, Michael A2 - Solla, Sara PY - 1998/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cohen98learning.html ER -