A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This c...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite...
Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result...
Knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and automated extraction methods like those of DBpedia enable the construction of large machine-processible knowledge bases with relat...
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
Content on the Internet is always changing. We explore the value of biasing search result snippets towards new webpage content. We present results from a user study comparing trad...
Krysta Marie Svore, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais,...