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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Compressing term positions in web indexes
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
Hao Yan, Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Evaluating web search using task completion time
We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
Ya Xu, David Mease
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
The impact of crawl policy on web search effectiveness
Crawl selection policy has a direct influence on Web search effectiveness, because a useful page that is not selected for crawling will also be absent from search results. Yet th...
Dennis Fetterly, Nick Craswell, Vishwa Vinay
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Fast nonparametric matrix factorization for large-scale collaborative filtering
With the sheer growth of online user data, it becomes challenging to develop preference learning algorithms that are sufficiently flexible in modeling but also affordable in com...
Kai Yu, Shenghuo Zhu, John D. Lafferty, Yihong Gon...