Any given Web search engine may provide higher quality results than others for certain queries. Therefore, it is in users' best interest to utilize multiple search engines. I...
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Mikhail Bilenko...
The primary business model behind Web search is based on textual advertising, where contextually relevant ads are displayed alongside search results. We address the problem of sel...
Filip Radlinski, Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, ...
The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive findings for IR that follow, and the lessons TREC offers for IR evaluation....
Different presentations of candidate expansion terms have not been fully explored in interactive query expansion (IQE). Most existing systems that offer an IQE facility use a list...
Hideo Joho, Claire Coverson, Mark Sanderson, Miche...
The intuition that different text classifiers behave in qualitatively different ways has long motivated attempts to build a better metaclassifier via some combination of classifie...