1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
Is it possible to use sense inventories to improve Web search results diversity for one word queries? To answer this question, we focus on two broad-coverage lexical resources of ...
Clustering web search engine results for ambiguous keyword searches poses unique challenges. First, we show that one cannot readily import the frequency based feature ranking to c...
Web search personalization aims to adapt search results to a user based on his tastes, interests and needs. The way in which such personal preferences are captured, modeled and exp...
Web search is the main way for millions of users to access information every day, but we continue to struggle when it comes to finding the right information at the right time. In ...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...