9

Cross-Vertical Search Ranking

Abstract

A traditional Web search engine conducts ranking mainly in a single domain, i.e., it focuses on one type of data source, and effective modeling relies on a sufficiently large number of labeled examples, which require an expensive and time-consuming labeling process. On the other side, it is very common for a vertical search engine to conduct ranking tasks in various verticals, thus presenting a more challenging ranking problem: cross-domain ranking. Although in this book our focus is on cross-vertical ranking, the proposed approaches can be applied to more general cases, such as cross-language ranking. Therefore, we use a more general term, cross-domain ranking, in this book. For cross-domain ranking, ...

Get Relevance Ranking for Vertical Search Engines now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.