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SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Surrogate scoring for improved metasearch precision
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
JCDL
2005
ACM
160views Education» more  JCDL 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
SpidersRUs: automated development of vertical search engines in different domains and languages
In this paper we discuss the architecture of a tool designed to help users develop vertical search engines in different domains and different languages. The design of the tool is ...
Michael Chau, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Chunju Tseng,...
HT
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Searching a file system using inferred semantic links
We describe Eureka, a file system search engine that takes into account the inherent relationships among files in order to improve the rankings of search results. The key idea b...
Deepavali Bhagwat, Neoklis Polyzotis
HT
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Queries as anchors: selection by association
This paper introduces a new method for linking the world view of the search engine user community with that of the search engine itself. This new method is based on collecting and...
Einat Amitay, Adam Darlow, David Konopnicki, Uri W...
WISE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Temporal Ranking of Search Engine Results
Existing search engines contain the picture of the Web from the past and their ranking algorithms are based on data crawled some time ago. However, a user requires not only relevan...
Adam Jatowt, Yukiko Kawai, Katsumi Tanaka
WIDM
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Identifying redundant search engines in a very large scale metasearch engine context
For a given set of search engines, a search engine is redundant if its searchable contents can be found from other search engines in this set. In this paper, we propose a method t...
Ronak Desai, Qi Yang, Zonghuan Wu, Weiyi Meng, Cle...
JCDL
2006
ACM
143views Education» more  JCDL 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Categorizing web search results into meaningful and stable categories using fast-feature techniques
When search results against digital libraries and web resources have limited metadata, augmenting them with meaningful and stable category information can enable better overviews ...
Bill Kules, Jack Kustanowitz, Ben Shneiderman
IMC
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Web search clickstreams
Search engines are a vital part of the Web and thus the Internet infrastructure. Therefore understanding the behavior of users searching the Web gives insights into trends, and en...
Nils Kammenhuber, Julia Luxenburger, Anja Feldmann...
ADBIS
2006
Springer
168views Database» more  ADBIS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
A Hybrid Ontology and Content-Based Search Engine For Multimedia Retrieval
Abstract. Huge amounts of digital visual content are currently available, thus placing a demand for advanced multimedia search engines. The contribution of this paper is the presen...
Haralambos Doulaverakis, Evangelia Nidelkou, Anast...