We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
In a higher level task such as clustering of web results or word sense disambiguation, knowledge of all possible distinct concepts in which an ambiguous word can be expressed woul...
Recent advances in click model have positioned it as an attractive method for representing user preferences in web search and online advertising. Yet, most of the existing works f...
Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Tom Minka, Chenguan...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...