An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
The rapid growth of the world wide web had made the problem of topic speci c resource discovery an important one in recent years. In this problem, it is desired to nd web pages wh...
As the Internet grows explosively, search engines play a more and more important role for users in effectively accessing online information. Recently, it has been recognized that ...
Ming Ji, Jun Yan, Siyu Gu, Jiawei Han, Xiaofei He,...
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...