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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Learning to rank query reformulations
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...
Van Dang, Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft
ICDE
2008
IEEE
146views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Explaining and Reformulating Authority Flow Queries
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa...
KDD
2005
ACM
177views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims
ALT
2010
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
PageRank Optimization in Polynomial Time by Stochastic Shortest Path Reformulation
Abstract. The importance of a node in a directed graph can be measured by its PageRank. The PageRank of a node is used in a number of application contexts
Balázs Csanád Csáji, Rapha&eu...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Modeling reformulation using passage analysis
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith