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KDD
2006
ACM
143views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
16 years 4 months ago
Mining long-term search history to improve search accuracy
Long-term search history contains rich information about a user's search preferences. In this paper, we study statistical language modeling based methods to mine contextual i...
Bin Tan, Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
DATESO
2006
103views Database» more  DATESO 2006»
15 years 5 months ago
Using WordNet Glosses to Refine Google Queries
This paper describes one of the ways how to overcome one of the major limitations of current fulltext search engines. It deals with synonymy of the web search engine results by clu...
Jan Nemrava
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ADC
2004
Springer
79views Database» more  ADC 2004»
15 years 9 months ago
Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search.
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query ambiguity
Query ambiguity is a generally recognized problem, particularly in Web environments where queries are commonly only one or two words in length. In this study, we explore one techn...
James Allan, Hema Raghavan
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Understanding web search via a learning paradigm
Investigating whether one can view Web searching as a learning process, we examined the searching characteristics of 41 participants engaged in 246 searching tasks. We classified ...
Bernard J. Jansen, Brian Keith Smith, Danielle L. ...