Relevance feedback, which traditionally uses the terms in the relevant documents to enrich the user's initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performanc...
Whole page relevance defines how well the surface-level representation of all elements on a search result page and the corresponding holistic attributes of the presentation respon...
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White, Liwei ...
The primary business model behind Web search is based on textual advertising, where contextually relevant ads are displayed alongside search results. We address the problem of sel...
Filip Radlinski, Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, ...
Background: Finding relevant articles from PubMed is challenging because it is hard to express the user’s specific intention in the given query interface, and a keyword query ty...
Hwanjo Yu, Taehoon Kim, Jinoh Oh, Ilhwan Ko, Sungc...
Interpreting the relevance of a user-contributed tag with respect to the visual content of an image is an emerging problem in social image retrieval. In the literature this proble...