Query ambiguity is a generally recognized problem, particularly in Web environments where queries are commonly only one or two words in length. In this study, we explore one techn...
Given a user keyword query, current Web search engines return a list of individual Web pages ranked by their "goodness" with respect to the query. Thus, the basic unit fo...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li
We investigate three methods for defining a session on Web search engines. We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 Web searchers. We compare defining sessions using: 1) Int...
In this paper, we exploit a novel ranking mechanism that processes query samples with noisy labels, motivated by the practical application of web image search re-ranking where the...
nition of a common model that abstracted the shared knowledge (ontology); a formalism for representing such knowledge (Knowledge Interchange Format, or KIF); and a transport-indepe...