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WWW
2002
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Improving searcher models using mouse cursor activity
Web search components such as ranking and query suggestions analyze the user data provided in query and click logs. While this data is easy to collect and provides information abo...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan ...
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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Post-rank reordering: resolving preference misalignments between search engines and end users
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
Chao Liu, Mei Li, Yi-Min Wang
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani
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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Joke retrieval: recognizing the same joke told differently
In a corpus of jokes, a human might judge two documents to be the "same joke" even if characters, locations, and other details are varied. A given joke could be retold w...
Lisa Friedland, James Allan