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WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 18 days ago
Automatic extraction of clickable structured web contents for name entity queries
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Xiao Li, Yi-Chin Tu
NIPS
2007
15 years 7 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
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...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
UAI
2003
15 years 7 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
HCI
2009
15 years 3 months ago
An Analysis of Eye Movements during Browsing Multiple Search Results Pages
In general, most search engines display a certain number of search results on a search results page at one time, separating the entire search results into multiple search results p...
Yuko Matsuda, Hidetake Uwano, Masao Ohira, Ken-ich...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Predicting query difficulty on the web by learning visual clues
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...