Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking scheme in order to effectively handle user searches, which are inherently ambiguous and whose relevance ...
Efficient search for nearest neighbors (NN) is a fundamental problem arising in a large variety of applications of vast practical interest. In this paper we propose a novel techniq...
We present results from an experiment that studied the information search behavior of younger and older adults in a medical decision-making task. To study how different combinatio...
Web searches tend to be short and ambiguous. It is therefore not surprising that Web query disambiguation is an actively researched topic. To provide a personalized experience for ...
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...