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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
The good, the bad, and the random: an eye-tracking study of ad quality in web search
We investigate how people interact with Web search engine result pages using eye-tracking. While previous research has focused on the visual attention devoted to the 10 organic se...
Georg Buscher, Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Interactive retrieval based on faceted feedback
Motivated by the commonly used faceted search interface in e-commerce, this paper investigates interactive relevance feedback mechanism based on faceted document metadata. In this...
Lanbo Zhang, Yi Zhang
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Proximity-based opinion retrieval
Blog post opinion retrieval aims at finding blog posts that are relevant and opinionated about a user’s query. In this paper we propose a simple probabilistic model for assigni...
Shima Gerani, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Personalize web search results with user's location
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Xing Wei, Benoît Dumo...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Adaptive near-duplicate detection via similarity learning
In this paper, we present a novel near-duplicate document detection method that can easily be tuned for a particular domain. Our method represents each document as a real-valued s...
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Wen-tau Yih, Aleksander Kolcz
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Multilabel classification with meta-level features
Effective learning in multi-label classification (MLC) requires an ate level of abstraction for representing the relationship between each instance and multiple categories. Curren...
Siddharth Gopal, Yiming Yang
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
SIGIR: scholar vs. scholars' interpretation
Google Scholar allows researchers to search through a free and extensive source of information on scientific publications. In this paper we show that within the limited context o...
James Lanagan, Alan F. Smeaton
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Comparing click-through data to purchase decisions for retrieval evaluation
Traditional retrieval evaluation uses explicit relevance judgments which are expensive to collect. Relevance assessments inferred from implicit feedback such as click-through data...
Katja Hofmann, Bouke Huurnink, Marc Bron, Maarten ...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Estimation of statistical translation models based on mutual information for ad hoc information retrieval
As a principled approach to capturing semantic relations of words in information retrieval, statistical translation models have been shown to outperform simple document language m...
Maryam Karimzadehgan, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Predicting query performance on the web
Niranjan Balasubramanian, Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor ...