Abstract
Recently learning to rank has been widely used in real-time Twitter Search by integrating various of evidence of relevance and recency features into together. In real-time Twitter search, whereby the information need of a user is represented by a query at a specific time, users are interested in fresh messages. In this paper, we introduce a new ranking strategy to rerank the tweets by incorporating multiple features. Besides, an empirical study of learning to rank for real-time Twitter search is conducted by adopting the state-of-the-art learning to rank approaches. Experiments on the standard TREC Tweets11 collection show that both the listwise and pairwise learning to rank methods outperform baselines, namely the content-based retrieval models.
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Cheng, F., Zhang, X., He, B., Luo, T., Wang, W. (2013). A Survey of Learning to Rank for Real-Time Twitter Search. In: Zu, Q., Hu, B., Elçi, A. (eds) Pervasive Computing and the Networked World. ICPCA/SWS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7719. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37015-1_13
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