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KDD
2009
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
PSkip: estimating relevance ranking quality from web search clickthrough data
1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
Kuansan Wang, Toby Walker, Zijian Zheng
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Multiple approaches to analysing query diversity
In this paper we examine user queries with respect to diversity: providing a mix of results across different interpretations. Using two query log analysis techniques (click entrop...
Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Murad Abouammoh, Serg...
TKDE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Personalized Concept-Based Clustering of Search Engine Queries
A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...
Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung, Wilfred Ng, Dik Lun Lee
BMCBI
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Flexible taxonomic assignment of ambiguous sequencing reads
Background: To characterize the diversity of bacterial populations in metagenomic studies, sequencing reads need to be accurately assigned to taxonomic units in a given reference ...
José Carlos Clemente, Jesper Jansson, Gabri...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft