Traditional machine-learned ranking algorithms for web search are trained in batch mode, which assume static relevance of documents for a given query. Although such a batch-learni...
It is widely believed that the value of acquiring a slot in a sponsored search list (that comes along with the organic links in a search engine’s result page) highly depends on ...
The transition of search engine users’ intents has been studied for a long time. The knowledge of intent transition, once discovered, can yield a better understanding of how diï...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
Mining feedback information from user click-through data is an important issue for modern Web retrieval systems in terms of architecture analysis, performance evaluation and algor...
Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Bo Zhou, Liyun ...