Query expansion techniques generally select new query terms from a set of top ranked documents. Although a user’s manual judgment of those documents would much help to select goo...
Hyperlink analysis is a successful approach to define algorithms which compute the relevance of a document on the basis of the citation graph. In this paper we propose a technique...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Abstract. While the Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval provides the basis for formal models, it makes a very strong assumption regarding the dependence between...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
Abstract Searching information resources using mobile devices is affected by displays on which only a small fraction of the set of ranked documents can be displayed. In this study ...
Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Fraylin...