World Wide Web search engines typically return thousands of results to the users. To avoid users browsing through the whole list of results, search engines use ranking algorithms ...
Abstract. Just-In-Time Information Retrieval agents proactively retrieve information based on queries that are implicit in, and formulated from, the user's current context, su...
Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...
A number of existing information retrieval systems propose the notion of query context to combine the knowledge of query and user into retrieval to reveal the most exact descripti...
Keke Cai, Chun Chen, Jiajun Bu, Peng Huang, Zhimin...
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...