Supervised ordering - an empirical survey

Ordered lists of objects are widely used as representational forms. Such ordered objects include Web search results or bestseller lists. In spite of their importance, methods of processing orders have received little attention. However, research concerning orders has become common; in particular, researchers have developed various methods for the task of supervised ordering to acquire functions for object sorting from example orders. Here, we give a unified view of these methods and our new one, and empirically survey their merits and demerits.