-- Searching for medical information on the Web is popular and important. However, medical search has its own unique requirements that are poorly handled by existing medical Web se...
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
Both search engine click-through log and social annotation have been utilized as user feedback for search result re-ranking. However, to our best knowledge, no previous study has ...
Jun Yan, Ning Liu, Elaine Qing Chang, Lei Ji, Zhen...
Major search engines currently use the history of a user's actions (e.g., queries, clicks) to personalize search results. In this paper, we present a new personalized service...