Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
—Web-scale image search engines (e.g. Google Image Search, Bing Image Search) mostly rely on surrounding text features. It is difficult for them to interpret users’ search int...
Xiaoou Tang, Ke Liu, Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Xiaogan...
This paper explores search behavior of online shoppers. Information economics literature suggests that search cost in electronic markets has essentially been reduced to zero as co...
This report describes Dartmouth College’s approach and results for the 2007 TREC Legal Track. Our original plan was to use the Combination of Expert Opinion (CEO) algorithm [1],...