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KDD
2002
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Thorsten Joachims
WSDM
2009
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 13 days ago
Generating labels from clicks
The ranking function used by search engines to order results is learned from labeled training data. Each training point is a (query, URL) pair that is labeled by a human judge who...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthap...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
144views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Do we mean the same?: disambiguation of extracted keyword queries for database search
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
Elena Demidova, Irina Oelze, Peter Fankhauser
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised query categorization using automatically-built concept graphs
Automatic categorization of user queries is an important component of general purpose (Web) search engines, particularly for triggering rich, query-specific content and sponsored ...
Eustache Diemert, Gilles Vandelle
IR
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill