A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...
We present a novel language modeling approach to capturing the query reformulation behavior of Web search users. Based on a framework that categorizes eight different types of “...
A voice search system requires a speech interface that can correctly recognize spoken queries uttered by users. The recognition performance strongly relies on a robust language mo...
Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig, Dan Bohus
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
Using abundant Web resources to mine Chinese term translations can be applied in many fields such as reading/writing assistant, machine translation and crosslanguage information r...