Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...
Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...
Versioned document collections are collections that contain multiple versions of each document. Important examples are Web archives, Wikipedia and other wikis, or source code and ...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
There is an exploding amount of user-generated content on the Web due to the emergence of "Web 2.0" services, such as Blogger, MySpace, Flickr, and del.icio.us. The part...
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