Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
Abstract—We present a method for modeling, and automatically inferring, the current interest of a user in search advertising. Our task is complementary to that of predicting ad r...
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein, Charles L. A. Clarke, Az...
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
Social network contents are not limited to text but also multimedia. Dailymotion, YouTube, and MySpace are examples of successful sites which allow users to share videos among the...
Janice Kwan-Wai Leung, Chun Hung Li, Ting Keung Ip
—We have proposed an auto-memoization processor. This processor automatically and dynamically memoizes both functions and loop iterations, and skips their execution by reusing th...