We propose a simple yet eective approach to context sensitive synonym discovery for Web search queries based on co-click analysis; i.e., analyzing queries leading to clicking sam...
Recently a number of studies have demonstrated that search engine logfiles are an important resource to determine the relevance relation between URLs and query terms. We hypothes...
Max Hinne, Wessel Kraaij, Stephan Raaijmakers, Suz...
We introduce the Multiple Relationship Similarity Spreading Algorithm (MRSSA) to enhance IR effectiveness. This method has similarity computed in an iterative “spreading” fash...
We examine the problem of evaluating a policy in the contextual bandit setting using only observations collected during the execution of another policy. We show that policy evalua...
John Langford, Alexander L. Strehl, Jennifer Wortm...
A large and growing number of web pages display contextual advertising based on keywords automatically extracted from the text of the page, and this is a substantial source of rev...