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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Post-rank reordering: resolving preference misalignments between search engines and end users
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
Chao Liu, Mei Li, Yi-Min Wang
ML
2000
ACM
150views Machine Learning» more  ML 2000»
14 years 9 months ago
Adaptive Retrieval Agents: Internalizing Local Context and Scaling up to the Web
This paper discusses a novel distributed adaptive algorithm and representation used to construct populations of adaptive Web agents. These InfoSpiders browse networked information ...
Filippo Menczer, Richard K. Belew
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Mining, indexing, and searching for textual chemical molecule information on the web
Current search engines do not support user searches for chemical entities (chemical names and formulae) beyond simple keyword searches. Usually a chemical molecule can be represen...
Bingjun Sun, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles
SAINT
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Creating Location-Based Services by Utilising a Web of Places
We present an open, decentralized, participatory system which realizes location-based services by gently extending the existing World Wide Web. Utilizing a geospatial search engin...
Benedikt Ostermaier, Philipp Bolliger
WWW
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Automatic identification of user goals in Web search
There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
Uichin Lee, Zhenyu Liu, Junghoo Cho