The context of the user queries, preceding a given query, is utilized to improve the effectiveness of query classification. Earlier efforts utilize fixed number of preceding queri...
Logs of users' searches on Web health topics can exhibit signs of escalation of medical concerns, where initial queries about common symptoms are followed by queries about se...
We propose a method to predict a user’s favourite locations in a city, based on his Flickr geotags in other cities. We define a similarity between the geotag distributions of t...
Maarten Clements, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vri...
We consider blog feed search: identifying relevant blogs for a given topic. An individual’s search behavior often involves a combination of exploratory behavior triggered by sal...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
We investigate the effectiveness of both the standard evaluation measures and the opinion component for topical opinion retrieval. We analyze how relevance is affected by opinio...
Giambattista Amati, Giuseppe Amodeo, Valerio Capoz...