Sponsored search is one of the enabling technologies for today's Web search engines. It corresponds to matching and showing ads related to the user query on the search engine...
A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...
In this paper, we propose a novel top-k learning to rank framework, which involves labeling strategy, ranking model and evaluation measure. The motivation comes from the difficul...
Abstract. After participating in last year's CLEF IP (2009) evaluation benchmark, our scores were rather low. The CLEF IP 2010 PAC task enabled us to correct some experiments ...
Wouter Alink, Roberto Cornacchia, Arjen P. de Vrie...
WebPMI is a popular web-based association measure to evaluate the semantic similarity between two queries (i.e. words or entities) by leveraging search results returned by search ...