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Many different ranking algorithms based on content and context have been used in web search engines to find pages based on a user query. Furthermore, to achieve better performance some new solutions combine different algorithms. In this paper we use simulated click-through data to learn how to combine many content and context features of web pages. This method is simple and practical to use with actual click-through data in a live search engine. The proposed approach is evaluated using the LETOR benchmark and we found it is competitive to Ranking SVM based on user judgments.
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Bidoki, A.M.Z., Thom, J.A. (2009). Combination of Documents Features Based on Simulated Click-through Data. In: Boughanem, M., Berrut, C., Mothe, J., Soule-Dupuy, C. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5478. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_48
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