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SEMCO
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting Semantic Query Context to Improve Search Ranking
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
SSDBM
2008
IEEE
149views Database» more  SSDBM 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Query Planning for Searching Inter-dependent Deep-Web Databases
Increasingly, many data sources appear as online databases, hidden behind query forms, thus forming what is referred to as the deep web. It is desirable to have systems that can pr...
Fan Wang, Gagan Agrawal, Ruoming Jin
DEXAW
2009
IEEE
139views Database» more  DEXAW 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Web Page Retrieval Using Search Context from Clicked Domain Names
Abstract—Search context is a crucial factor that helps to understand a user’s information need in ad-hoc Web page retrieval. A query log of a search engine contains rich inform...
Rongmei Li