How can we cull the facts we need from the overwhelming mass of information and misinformation that is the Web? The TextRunner extraction engine represents one approach, in which ...
Eye tracking experiments have shown that titles of Web search results play a crucial role in guiding a user’s search process. We present a machine-learned algorithm that trains ...
Tapas Kanungo, Nadia Ghamrawi, Ki Yuen Kim, Lawren...
In this paper we present a general framework to study sequences of search activities performed by a user. Our framework provides (i) a vocabulary to discuss types of features, mod...
Qiaozhu Mei, Kristina Klinkner, Ravi Kumar, Andrew...
Information retrieval systems conventionally assess document relevance using the bag of words model. Consequently, relevance scores of documents retrieved for different queries a...
Deepak Agarwal, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Robert Hall, ...
In order to deal with the diversified nature of XML documents as well as individual user preferences, we propose a novel Multiodel (MRM), which is able to abstract a spectrum of i...