RankDE: learning a ranking function for information retrieval using differential evolution

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@InProceedings{Bollegala:2011:GECCO,

• author = "Danushka Bollegala and Nasimul Noman and Hitoshi Iba",
• title = "{RankDE:} learning a ranking function for information retrieval using differential evolution",
• booktitle = "GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation",
• year = "2011",
• editor = "Natalio Krasnogor and Pier Luca Lanzi and Andries Engelbrecht and David Pelta and Carlos Gershenson and Giovanni Squillero and Alex Freitas and Marylyn Ritchie and Mike Preuss and Christian Gagne and Yew Soon Ong and Guenther Raidl and Marcus Gallager and Jose Lozano and Carlos Coello-Coello and Dario Landa Silva and Nikolaus Hansen and Silja Meyer-Nieberg and Jim Smith and Gus Eiben and Ester Bernado-Mansilla and Will Browne and Lee Spector and Tina Yu and Jeff Clune and Greg Hornby and Man-Leung Wong and Pierre Collet and Steve Gustafson and Jean-Paul Watson and Moshe Sipper and Simon Poulding and Gabriela Ochoa and Marc Schoenauer and Carsten Witt and Anne Auger",
• isbn13 = "978-1-4503-0557-0",
• pages = "1771--1778",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Real world applications",
• month = "12-16 " # jul,
• organisation = "SIGEVO",
• address = "Dublin, Ireland",
• DOI = "doi:10.1145/2001576.2001814",
• publisher = "ACM",
• publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
• abstract = "Learning a ranking function is important for numerous tasks such as information retrieval (IR), question answering, and product recommendation. For example, in information retrieval, a Web search engine is required to rank and return a set of documents relevant to a query issued by a user. We propose RankDE, a ranking method that uses differential evolution (DE) to learn a ranking function to rank a list of documents retrieved by a Web search engine. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed method is the first DE-based approach to learn a ranking function for IR. We evaluate the proposed method using LETOR dataset, a standard benchmark dataset for training and evaluating ranking functions for IR. In our experiments, the proposed method significantly outperforms previously proposed rank learning methods that use evolutionary computation algorithms such as Particle Swam Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Programming (GP), achieving a statistically significant mean average precision (MAP) of 0.339 on TD2003 dataset and 0.430 on the TD2004 dataset. Moreover, the proposed method shows comparable results to the state-of-the-art non-evolutionary computational approaches on this benchmark dataset. We analyze the feature weights learnt by the proposed method to better understand the salient features for the task of learning to rank for information retrieval.",
• notes = "Also known as \cite{2001814} GECCO-2011 A joint meeting of the twentieth international conference on genetic algorithms (ICGA-2011) and the sixteenth annual genetic programming conference (GP-2011)",

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