Just as the link structure of the web is a critical component in today's web search, complex relationships (i.e., the different ways the dots are connected) will be an import...
Retrieving entities instead of just documents has become an important task for search engines. In this paper we study entity retrieval for news applications, and in particular the...
Gianluca Demartini, Malik Muhammad Saad Missen, Ro...
As web search providers seek to improve both relevance and response times, they are challenged by the ever-increasing tax of automated search query traffic. Third party systems in...
Gregory Buehrer, Jack W. Stokes, Kumar Chellapilla
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: for a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
We study a new task, proactive information retrieval by combining implicit relevance feedback and collaborative filtering. We have constructed a controlled experimental setting, ...