Learning to Rank: A Complete Guide to Ranking using Machine Learning

Ranking: What and Why?

In this post, by “ranking” we mean sorting documents by relevance to find contents of interest with respect to a query. This is a fundamental problem of Information Retrieval, but this task also arises in many other applications:

1. Search Engines — Given a user profile (location, age, sex, …) a textual query, sort web pages results by relevance.
2. Recommender Systems — Given a user profile and …

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