It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
We consider how to support interactive querying over webscale data. The basic approach is to view querying as a two-phase activity: first supply a query template, and later supply...
Christopher Olston, Edward Bortnikov, Khaled Elmel...
We review a query log of hundreds of millions of queries that constitute the total query traffic for an entire week of a generalpurpose commercial web search service. Previously, ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...