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WSDM
2012
ACM
258views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
13 years 7 months ago
Large-scale analysis of individual and task differences in search result page examination strategies
Understanding the impact of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies is important in developing improved search engines. Characterizing these e...
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jef...
CIVR
2003
Springer
200views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2003»
15 years 5 months ago
Multimedia Search with Pseudo-relevance Feedback
We present an algorithm for video retrieval that fuses the decisions of multiple retrieval agents in both text and image modalities. While the normalization and combination of evi...
Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Rong Jin
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A query model based on normalized log-likelihood
Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
125views Database» more  SIGMOD 1997»
15 years 4 months ago
The Distributed Information Search Component (Disco) and the World Wide Web
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
Anthony Tomasic, Rémy Amouroux, Philippe Bo...