Different information retrieval (IR) systems often return very diverse results lists for the same query. This is problematic for users since no one IR system works best for every ...
Aslam, Pavlu, and Savell [3] introduced the Hedge algorithm for metasearch which effectively combines the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple retrieval systems in resp...
In this poster we introduce ProThes, a pilot meta-search engine (MSE) for a specific application domain. ProThes combines three approaches: meta-search, graphical user interface (...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...