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PREMI
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Finding Potential Seeds through Rank Aggregation of Web Searches
This paper presents a potential seed selection algorithm for web crawlers using a gain - share scoring approach. Initially we consider a set of arbitrarily chosen tourism queries. ...
Rajendra Prasath, Pinar Öztürk
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Ad-hoc aggregations of ranked lists in the presence of hierarchies
A variety of web sites and web based services produce textual lists at varying time granularities ranked according to several criteria. For example, Google Trends produces lists o...
Nilesh Bansal, Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Time is of the essence: improving recency ranking using Twitter data
Realtime web search refers to the retrieval of very fresh content which is in high demand. An effective portal web search engine must support a variety of search needs, including ...
Anlei Dong, Ruiqiang Zhang, Pranam Kolari, Jing Ba...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve Web Search
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong