Time plays important roles in Web search, because most Web pages contain time information and a lot of Web queries are time-related. However, traditional search engines such as Google have little consideration on the time information in Web pages. In particular, they do not take into account the time information of Web pages when ranking searching results. In this paper, we present a new timeaw...

An adaptation process is described to adapt a ranking model constructed for a broad-based search engine for use with a domain-specific ranking model. It’s difficult to applying the broad-based ranking model directly to different domains due to domain differences, to build a unique ranking model for each domain it time-consuming for training models. In this paper,we address these difficulties by...

In this paper, we present CMU’s question answering system that was evaluated in the TREC 2016 LiveQA Challenge. Our overall approach this year is similar to the one used in 2015. This system answers real-user submitted questions from Yahoo! Answers website, which involves retrieving relevant web pages, extracting answer candidate texts, ranking and selecting answer candidates. The main improvem...

Ranking is an important subject in information retrieval, and a variety of techniques and algorithms have been developed to rank the retrieved documents and web pages for a given query. However, ranking is also a challenging task, since it is a dynamic problem, namely a user’s interest toward each query changes from time to time and it is difficult to accurately extract user interest over time....

Observation on query log of search engine indicates that queries are usually ambiguous. Similar to document ranking, search intents should be ranked to facilitate information search. Previous work attempts to rank intents with merely relevance score. We argue that diversity is also important. In this work, unified models are proposed to rank intents underlying a query by combining relevance sco...

One hears that the credit ranking score has increased technical efficiency in financial holding companies, when a data envelopment analysis (DEA) is employed. Our empirical results show that the credit ranking scores will obviously affect the estimated results of efficiency measurement in Taiwan’s financial holding companies. Additionally, the effects on technical inefficiency could be attribut...

From the viewpoint of networks, a ranking system for players or teams in sports is equivalent to a centrality measure for sports networks, whereby a directed link represents the result of a single game. Previously proposed network-based ranking systems are derived from static networks, i.e., aggregation of the results of games over time. However, the score of a player (or team) fluctuates over ...

In many applications, ranking of decision making units (DMUs) is a problematic technical task procedure to decision makers in data envelopment analysis (DEA), especially when there are extremely efficient DMUs. In such cases, many DEA models may usually get the same efficiency score for different DMUs. Hence, there is a growing interest in ranking techniques yet. The main purpose of this paper ...

data envelopment analysis (dea) with considering the best condition for each decision making unit (dmu) assesses the relative efficiency for it and divides a homogenous group of dmus in to two categories: efficient and inefficient, but traditional dea models can not rank efficient dmus. although some models were introduced for ranking efficient dmus, franklin lio & hsuan peng (2008), proposed a...