Abstract. Clickthrough data has been the subject of increasing popularity as an implicit indicator of user feedback. Previous analysis has suggested that user click behaviour is su...
Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck, And...
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...
Abstract. The focus of web search is moving away from returning relevant documents towards returning structured data as results to user queries. A vital part in the architecture of...
This paper presents an extensive study about the evolution of textual content on the Web, which shows how some new pages are created from scratch while others are created using al...