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SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Block-based web search
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Block-level link analysis
Link Analysis has shown great potential in improving the performance of web search. PageRank and HITS are two of the most popular algorithms. Most of the existing link analysis al...
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Bookmark-driven Query Routing in Peer-to-Peer Web Search
: We consider the problem of collaborative Web search and query routing strategies in a peer-to-peer (P2P) environment. In our architecture every peer has a full-fledged search en...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard Weikum,...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluation of filtering current news search results
We describe an evaluation of result set filtering techniques for providing ultra-high precision in the task of presenting related news for general web queries. In this task, the n...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
We describe Web-a-Where, a system for associating geography with Web pages. Web-a-Where locates mentions of places and determines the place each name refers to. In addition, it as...
Einat Amitay, Nadav Har'El, Ron Sivan, Aya Soffer
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
User biased document language modelling
Capitalizing on the intuitive underlying assumptions of Language Modelling for Ad-Hoc Retrieval we present a novel approach that is capable of injecting the user’s context of th...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Cornelis Joost van ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Hourly analysis of a very large topically categorized web query log
We review a query log of hundreds of millions of queries that constitute the total query traffic for an entire week of a generalpurpose commercial web search service. Previously, ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A joint framework for collaborative and content filtering
This paper proposes a novel, unified, and systematic approach to combine collaborative and content-based filtering for ranking and user preference prediction. The framework inco...
Justin Basilico, Thomas Hofmann