The core task of sponsored search is to retrieve relevant ads for the user’s query. Ads can be retrieved either by exact match, when their bid term is identical to the query, or...
Michael Bendersky, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josi...
Our digital universe is growing, creating exploding amounts of data which need to be searched, protected and filtered. String searching is at the core of the tools we use to curb...
Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Oreste Villa, Fabrizio Pe...
Most existing web video search engines index videos by file names, URLs, and surrounding texts. These types of video roughly describe the whole video in an abstract level without ...
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
Web search engines discover indexable documents by recursively ‘crawling’ from a seed URL. Their rankings take into account link popularity. While this works well, it introduc...
Tom Rowlands, David Hawking, Ramesh Sankaranarayan...