%0 Conference Paper %1 citeulike:1711976 %A Boyan, J. %A Freitag, D. %A Joachims, T. %B Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Internet-Based Information Systems %D 1996 %K feedback, learning, machine, reinforcement, relevance, search, web %T A Machine Learning Architecture for Optimizing Web Search Engines %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/boyan96machine.html %X Indexing systems for the World Wide Web, such as Lycos and Alta Vista, play an essential role in making the Web useful and usable. These systems are based on Information Retrieval methods for indexing plain text documents, but also include heuristics for adjusting their document rankings based on the special HTML structure of Web documents. In this paper, we describe a wide range of such heuristics---including a novel one inspired by reinforcement learning techniques for propagating rewards...

@inproceedings{citeulike:1711976, abstract = {Indexing systems for the World Wide Web, such as Lycos and Alta Vista, play an essential role in making the Web useful and usable. These systems are based on Information Retrieval methods for indexing plain text documents, but also include heuristics for adjusting their document rankings based on the special HTML structure of Web documents. In this paper, we describe a wide range of such heuristics---including a novel one inspired by reinforcement learning techniques for propagating rewards...}, added-at = {2008-06-17T16:01:02.000+0200}, author = {Boyan, J. and Freitag, D. and Joachims, T.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f626405f45454001c24cd027470b9d62/pprett}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Internet-Based Information Systems}, citeulike-article-id = {1711976}, interhash = {1b893c34aed688704e8d62eedcf1f302}, intrahash = {f626405f45454001c24cd027470b9d62}, keywords = {feedback, learning, machine, reinforcement, relevance, search, web}, posted-at = {2007-09-30 19:03:22}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2008-06-17T16:02:07.000+0200}, title = {A Machine Learning Architecture for Optimizing Web Search Engines}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/boyan96machine.html}, year = 1996 }