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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient search engine measurements
We address the problem of measuring global quality metrics of search engines, like corpus size, index freshness, and density of duplicates in the corpus. The recently proposed est...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Maxim Gurevich
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Beyond position bias: examining result attractiveness as a source of presentation bias in clickthrough data
Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when interpr...
Yisong Yue, Rajan Patel, Hein Roehrig
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Query biased snippet generation in XML search
Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking scheme in order to effectively handle user searches, which are inherently ambiguous and whose relevance ...
Yu Huang, Ziyang Liu, Yi Chen
AIRWEB
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Extracting Link Spam using Biased Random Walks from Spam Seed Sets
Link spam deliberately manipulates hyperlinks between web pages in order to unduly boost the search engine ranking of one or more target pages. Link based ranking algorithms such ...
Baoning Wu, Kumar Chellapilla
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A user browsing model to predict search engine click data from past observations
Search engine click logs provide an invaluable source of relevance information but this information is biased because we ignore which documents from the result list the users have...
Georges Dupret, Benjamin Piwowarski