Algorithms and applications of preference based ranking for information retrieval
Mingjun Lan · 2005
First of all, I would like to sincerely thank my supervisor, Professor Wanlei Zhou for nicely guiding me in this beautiful research field, kindly encouraging me to think and write in English, continually providing lots of valuable suggestions through the whole period of my PhD program, tirelessly correcting my numerous manuscripts, and repeatedly reading the thesis draft thoroughly many times. I am fortunate to have been able to work with him since the beginning of my PhD study. I would also like to thank Mrs Chris De Boos, “De Boos Editing & Education Services”, for language advice & help with proofreading. I would like to thank the academic staff in school of Information Technology,