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ESWS
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Concept Search: Semantics Enabled Syntactic Search
Abstract. Historically, information retrieval (IR) has followed two principally different paths that we call syntactic IR and semantic IR. In syntactic IR, terms are represented as...
Fausto Giunchiglia, Uladzimir Kharkevich, Ilya Zai...
JAIR
2010
143views more  JAIR 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
A Utility-Theoretic Approach to Privacy in Online Services
Online offerings such as web search, news portals, and e-commerce applications face the challenge of providing high-quality service to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent eff...
Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Search shortcuts: driving users towards their goals
Giving suggestions to users of Web-based services is a common practice aimed at enhancing their navigation experience. Major Web Search Engines usually provide Suggestions under t...
Ranieri Baraglia, Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, ...
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
User-centric content freshness metrics for search engines
In order to return relevant search results, a search engine must keep its local repository synchronized to the Web, but it is usually impossible to attain perfect freshness. Hence...
Ali Dasdan, Xinh Huynh