We investigate the problem of learning to rank for document retrieval from the perspective of learning with multiple objective functions. We present solutions to two open problems...
Krysta Marie Svore, Maksims Volkovs, Christopher J...
Purpose – This paper reports the findings of a major study examining the overlap among results retrieved by three major web search engines. The goal of the research was to: mea...
Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Chris Blakely, Sh...
Query result clustering has recently attracted a lot of attention to provide users with a succinct overview of relevant results. However, little work has been done on organizing t...
Jongwuk Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong...
A common criticism of database systems is that they are hard to query for users uncomfortable with a formal query language. To address this problem, form-based interfaces and keyw...
Eric Chu, Akanksha Baid, Xiaoyong Chai, AnHai Doan...
Abstract— This paper presents the search problem formulated as a decision problem, where the searcher decides whether the target is present in the search region, and if so, where...