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CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using titles and category names from editor-driven taxonomies for automatic evaluation
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
ADC
2003
Springer
153views Database» more  ADC 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Automated Discovery of Search Interfaces on the Web
Web search engines work well for finding crawlable pages, but not for finding datasets hidden behind Web search forms. We describe a novel technique for detecting search forms, ...
Jared Cope, Nick Craswell, David Hawking
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Implicit link analysis for small web search
Current Web search engines generally impose link analysis-based re-ranking on web-page retrieval. However, the same techniques, when applied directly to small web search such as i...
Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying M...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Query word deletion prediction
Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
Rosie Jones, Daniel C. Fain
ITCC
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Effects of Search Engines and Query Operators on Top Ranked Results
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
Bernard J. Jansen, Caroline M. Eastman
ICRA
2003
IEEE
119views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Autonomous feature-based exploration
: The performance of single-camera SLAM is improved when wide-angle optics provide a field of view greater than the 40 to 50 degrees lenses normally used in computer vision. The is...
Paul M. Newman, Michael Bosse, John J. Leonard
IUI
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a reputation-based model of social web search
While web search tasks are often inherently collaborative in nature, many search engines do not explicitly support collaboration during search. In this paper, we describe HeyStaks...
Kevin KcNally, Michael P. O'Mahony, Barry Smyth, M...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Learning to cluster web search results
Organizing Web search results into clusters facilitates users' quick browsing through search results. Traditional clustering techniques are inadequate since they don't g...
Hua-Jun Zeng, Qi-Cai He, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Translating unknown queries with web corpora for cross-language information retrieval
It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...
Pu-Jen Cheng, Jei-Wen Teng, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Jenq-...
DBISP2P
2005
Springer
183views Database» more  DBISP2P 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Database Selection and Result Merging in P2P Web Search
Intelligent Web search engines are extremely popular now. Currently, only commercial centralized search engines like Google can process terabytes of Web data. Alternative search en...
Sergey Chernov, Pavel Serdyukov, Matthias Bender, ...