CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Web search engines are often presented with user queries that involve comparisons of real-world entities. Thus far, this interaction has typically been captured by users submittin...
KDD
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2001
ACM
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper we present the Infocious Web search engine [23]. Our goal in creating Infocious is to improve the way people find information on the Web by resolving ambiguities pre...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Finding relationships between entities on the Web, e.g., the connections between different places or the commonalities of people, is a novel and challenging problem. Existing Web ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Sponsored search is one of the enabling technologies for today's Web search engines. It corresponds to matching and showing ads related to the user query on the search engine...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Searchers have a choice about which Web search engine they use when looking for information online. If they are unsuccessful on one engine, users may switch to a different engine ...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
In order to artificially boost the rank of commercial pages in search engine results, search engine optimizers pay for links to these pages on other websites. Identifying paid lin...