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WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
CWS: a comparative web search system
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng...
UM
2009
Springer
16 years 27 days ago
Adaptive Clustering of Search Results
Clustering of search results has been shown to be advantageous over the simple list presentation of search results. However, in most clustering interfaces, the clusters are not ada...
Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai, Nicholas J. Belkin
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
The anatomy of an ad: structured indexing and retrieval for sponsored search
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...
ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Improved Lower Bounds for Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval
We prove new lower bounds for locally decodable codes and private information retrieval. We show that a 2-query LDC encoding nbit strings over an ℓ-bit alphabet, where the decode...
Stephanie Wehner, Ronald de Wolf
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Reasoning about similarity queries in text retrieval tasks
In many text retrieval tasks, it is highly desirable to obtain a "similarity profile" of the document collection for a given query. We propose sampling-based techniques ...
Xiaohui Yu, Yang Liu