This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
Comprehensive coverage of the public web is crucial to web search engines. Search engines use crawlers to retrieve pages and then discover new ones by extracting the pages' o...
An effective graphic interface is a key tool to improve the fruition of the results retrieved by an Information Retrieval (IR) system. In this work, we describe a two-dimensional...
Lorenzo De Stefani, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Giorg...
There has recently been an upsurge of interest in the possibilities of combining structured data and ad-hoc information retrieval from traditional hypertext. In this experiment, w...
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...