Different from traditional information retrieval, both content and structure are critical to the success of Web information retrieval. In recent years, many relevance propagation ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Zheng Chen, W...
Stand-alone ranking systems based on highly optimized inverted file structures are generally considered `the' solution for building search engines. Observing various developm...
Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
Throughout many of the different types of Web searches people perform, the primary tasks are to first craft a query that effectively captures their information needs, and then eva...
Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...