Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectiv...
Recent availability of commercial online machine translation (MT) systems makes it possible for layman Web users to utilize the MT capability for cross-language information retrie...
s In TREC-10, we participated in the web track (only ad-hoc task) and the QA track (only main task). In the QA track, our QA system (SiteQ) has general architecture with three proc...
Gary Geunbae Lee, Jungyun Seo, Seungwoo Lee, Hanmi...
Personalization actions that tailor the Web experience to a particular user are an integral component of recommender systems. Here, product knowledge - either hand-coded or “mine...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang