Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...
Social media websites promote diverse user interaction on media objects as well as user actions with respect to other users. The goal of this work is to discover community structu...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...
Users of search engines express their needs as queries, typically consisting of a small number of terms. The resulting search engine query logs are valuable resources that can be ...
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Seyed M. M. Tahaghog...
Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...
Bucket testing, also known as A/B testing, is a practice that is widely used by on-line sites with large audiences: in a simple version of the methodology, one evaluates a new fea...