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2010
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The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine
We present Aardvark, a social search engine. With Aardvark, users ask a question, either by instant message, email, web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the que...
Damon Horowitz, Sepandar D. Kamvar
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A novel traffic analysis for identifying search fields in the long tail of web sites
George Forman, Evan Kirshenbaum, Shyamsundar Rajar...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting query reformulations for web search result diversification
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Optimal rare query suggestion with implicit user feedback
Query suggestion has been an effective approach to help users narrow down to the information they need. However, most of existing studies focused on only popular/head queries. Si...
Yang Song, Li-wei He
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2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
TWC data-gov corpus: incrementally generating linked government data from data.gov
The Open Government Directive is making US government data available via websites such as Data.gov for public access. In this paper, we present a Semantic Web based approach that ...
Li Ding, Dominic DiFranzo, Alvaro Graves, James Mi...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Topic initiator detection on the world wide web
Xin Jin, Scott Spangler, Rui Ma, Jiawei Han
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
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2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Twitter, a popular microblogging service, has received much attention recently. An important characteristic of Twitter is its real-time nature. For example, when an earthquake occ...
Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo
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2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Object views: fine-grained sharing in browsers
Browsers do not currently support the secure sharing of JavaScript objects between principals. We present this problem as the need for object views, which are consistent and contr...
Leo A. Meyerovich, Adrienne Porter Felt, Mark S. M...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson