JAIR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Online offerings such as web search, news portals, and e-commerce applications face the challenge of providing high-quality service to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent eff...
IR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
IPM
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Contextual information provides an important basis for identifying and understanding users' information needs. Our previous work in traditional information retrieval systems ...
DEBU
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
State-of-the-art Web search engines are inherently limited in their abilities to search information in Deep Web beyond portals. This paper discusses how Web services and Semantic-...
DEBU
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Early Web search engines closely resembled Information Retrieval (IR) systems which had matured over several decades. Around 1996
DEBU
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
The current state of web search is most successful at directing users to appropriate web sites. Once at the site, the user has a choice of following hyperlinks or using site searc...
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
We describe a parser for robust and flexible interpretation of user utterances in a multi-modal system for web search in newspaper databases. Users can speak or type, and they can...
AIR
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
IJIS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Algorithms for clustering web search results have to be efficient and robust. Furthermore they must be able to cluster a dataset without using any kind of a priori information, s...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
We introduce a statistical model for abbreviation disambiguation in Web search, based on analysis of Web data resources, including anchor text, click log and query log. By combini...