The rise of social interactions on the Web requires developing new methods of information organization and discovery. To that end, we propose a generative community-based probabil...
Abstract. Collaborative Web search (CWS) is a community-based approach to Web search that supports the sharing of past result selections among a group of related searchers so as to...
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
Ranking microblogs, such as tweets, as search results for a query is challenging, among other things because of the sheer amount of microblogs that are being generated in real time...
This paper introduces the problem of matching people names to their corresponding social network identities such as their Twitter accounts. Existing tools for this purpose build u...
Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong...