We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Experienced web users have strategies for information search and re-access that are not directly supported by web browsers or search engines. We studied how prevalent these strate...
Personalized Web search takes advantage of information about an individual to identify the most relevant results for that person. A challenge for personalization lies in collectin...
To facilitate ordinary people to search medical information, we have built an intelligent medical Web search engine called iMed. iMed uses medical knowledge and an interactive que...
Current user interfaces for Web search, including browsers and search engine sites, typically treat search as a transient activity. However, people often conduct complex, multique...