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...
We consider the problem of retrieving multiple documents relevant to the single subtopics of a given web query, termed “full-subtopic retrieval”. To solve this problem we pres...
Andrea Bernardini, Claudio Carpineto, Massimiliano...
SimRank has been considered as one of the promising link-based ranking algorithms to evaluate similarities of web documents in many modern search engines. In this paper, we investi...
To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...
We study the problem of answering ambiguous web queries in a setting where there exists a taxonomy of information, and that both queries and documents may belong to more than one ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Alan Halverso...