Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783642142666)

Tie-Yan Liu is a lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He leads a team working on learning to rank for information retrieval, and graph-based machine learning. So far, he has more than 70 quality papers published in referred conferences and journals, including SIGIR(9), WWW(3), ICML(3), KDD, NIPS, ACM MM, IEEE TKDE, SIGKDD Explorations, etc. He has about 40 filed US / international patents or pending applications on learning to rank, general Web search, and multimedia signal processing. He is the co-author of the Best Student Paper for SIGIR 2008, and the Most Cited Paper for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2004 2006). He is an Area Chair of SIGIR 2009, a Senior Program Committee member of SIGIR 2008, and Program Committee members for many other international conferences, such as WWW, ICML, ACL, and ICIP. He is the co-chair of the SIGIR workshop on learning to rank for information retrieval (LR4IR) in 2007 and 2008. He has been on the Editorial Board of the Information Retrieval Journal (IRJ) since 2008, and is the guest editor of the special issue on learning to rank of IRJ. He has given tutorials on learning to rank at WWW 2008 and SIGIR 2008. Prior to joining Microsoft, he obtained his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, where his research efforts were devoted to video content analysis.