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CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Incorporating query difference for learning retrieval functions in world wide web search
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Exploring social annotations for information retrieval
Social annotation has gained increasing popularity in many Web-based applications, leading to an emerging research area in text analysis and information retrieval. This paper is c...
Ding Zhou, Jiang Bian, Shuyi Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, ...
SOUPS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
flyByNight: mitigating the privacy risks of social networking
Social networking websites are enormously popular, but they present a number of privacy risks to their users, one of the foremost of which being that social network service provid...
Matthew M. Lucas, Nikita Borisov
OTM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Self-tuning Personalized Information Retrieval in an Ontology-Based Framework
Reliability is a well-known concern in the field of personalization technologies. We propose the extension of an ontology-based retrieval system with semantic-based personalization...
Pablo Castells, Miriam Fernández, David Val...