Machine Learned Ranking approaches have shown successes in web search engines. With the increasing demands on developing effective ranking functions for different search domains, ...
Keke Chen, Rongqing Lu, C. K. Wong, Gordon Sun, La...
This paper addresses the various facets of emergent semantics in content retrieval systems such as Knowledge Sifter, an architecture and system based on the use of specialized agen...
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...
It is increasingly recognised that user preferences should be addressed in many advanced database applications, such as adaptive searching in databases. However, the fundamental is...