iRANK: A rank‐learn‐combine framework for unsupervised ensemble ranking

Furu Wei, Wenjie Li and Shixia Liu

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2010, vol. 61, issue 6, 1232-1243

Abstract: The authors address the problem of unsupervised ensemble ranking. Traditional approaches either combine multiple ranking criteria into a unified representation to obtain an overall ranking score or to utilize certain rank fusion or aggregation techniques to combine the ranking results. Beyond the aforementioned “combine‐then‐rank” and “rank‐then‐combine” approaches, the authors propose a novel “rank‐learn‐combine” ranking framework, called Interactive Ranking (iRANK), which allows two base rankers to “teach” each other before combination during the ranking process by providing their own ranking results as feedback to the others to boost the ranking performance. This mutual ranking refinement process continues until the two base rankers cannot learn from each other any more. The overall performance is improved by the enhancement of the base rankers through the mutual learning mechanism. The authors further design two ranking refinement strategies to efficiently and effectively use the feedback based on reasonable assumptions and rational analysis. Although iRANK is applicable to many applications, as a case study, they apply this framework to the sentence ranking problem in query‐focused summarization and evaluate its effectiveness on the DUC 2005 and 2006 data sets. The results are encouraging with consistent and promising improvements.

Date: 2010
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