—Information about individuals on publicly available web sites stands as a valuable, yet unorganized, data source. Turning such an enormous data source into a “database” is h...
User clicks on a URL in response to a query are extremely useful predictors of the URL's relevance to that query. Exact match click features tend to suffer from severe data s...
Huihsin Tseng, Longbin Chen, Fan Li, Ziming Zhuang...
Enterprise systems implementations are often accompanied by changes in the business processes of the organizations in which they take place. However, not all the changes are desira...
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...
Current Web search engines generally impose link analysis-based re-ranking on web-page retrieval. However, the same techniques, when applied directly to small web search such as i...