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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation
Many important search tasks require multiple search sessions to complete. Tasks such as travel planning, large purchases, or job searches can span hours, days, or even weeks. Inev...
Eugene Agichtein, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
An uncertainty-aware query selection model for evaluation of IR systems
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
TFMAP: optimizing MAP for top-n context-aware recommendation
In this paper, we tackle the problem of top-N context-aware recommendation for implicit feedback scenarios. We frame this challenge as a ranking problem in collaborative filterin...
Yue Shi, Alexandros Karatzoglou, Linas Baltrunas, ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
Mining query subtopics from search log data
Most queries in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Identifying the major senses and facets of queries from search log data, referred to as query subtopic mining in this pa...
Yunhua Hu, Ya-nan Qian, Hang Li, Daxin Jiang, Jian...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
Fighting against web spam: a novel propagation method based on click-through data
Combating Web spam is one of the greatest challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art anti-spam techniques focus mainly on detecting varieties of spam strategies, such as ...
Chao Wei, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun...