Searchplex ID Retrieval terminology registry

Method

Learning to Rank

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/learning-to-rank/

A family of supervised machine-learning methods for learning ranking functions from training data such as relevance judgments, preferences, clicks, or other labels.

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Scope

Learning to Rank is a method family used to produce or improve rankings. It is not the ranking task itself, and it is not limited to any one model family or stage of a retrieval pipeline.

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Related

Not equivalent to

  • Learning to Rank is not Ranking. Ranking is the task of ordering results; Learning to Rank is a method family for learning ranking functions.
  • Learning to Rank is not Reranking. Reranking is a pipeline stage or task; Learning to Rank methods may be used for reranking but are not the stage itself.

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