SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Link analysis methods have been used successfully for knowledge discovery from the link structure of mutually linking entities. Existing link analysis methods have been inherently...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
When attempting to annotate music, it is important to consider both acoustic content and social context. This paper explores techniques for collecting and combining multiple sourc...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Information retrieval systems are evaluated against test collections of topics, documents, and assessments of which documents are relevant to which topics. Documents are chosen fo...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Type-ahead search is a new information-access paradigm, in which systems can find answers to keyword queries “onthe-fly” as a user types in a query. It improves traditional ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Query log analysis has received substantial attention in recent years, in which the click graph is an important technique for describing the relationship between queries and URLs....
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
The need for evaluating large amounts of topics (queries) makes IR evaluation an uneasy task. In this paper, we study a topic selection problem for IR evaluation. The selection cr...