Search engines are powerful tools to find information on the Web. However, they commonly return a lot of irrelevant documents when the users’ queries are not specific enough. To...
Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
Finding relevant information in a hyperspace has been a much studied problem for many years. With the emergence of so called Web 2.0 technologies we have seen the use of social sy...
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Domain-specific internet portals are growing in popularity because they gather content from the Web and organize it for easy access, retrieval and search. For example, www.campsear...
Andrew McCallum, Kamal Nigam, Jason Rennie, Kristi...
An increasing number of social networking platforms are giving users the option to endorse entities that they find appealing, such as videos, photos, or even other users. We defin...