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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Talking the talk vs. walking the walk: salience of information needs in querying vs. browsing
Traditional information retrieval models assume that users express their information needs via text queries (i.e., their "talk"). In this poster, we consider Web browsin...
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson...
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou
CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Semi-supervised multi-task learning of structured prediction models for web information extraction
Extracting information from web pages is an important problem; it has several applications such as providing improved search results and construction of databases to serve user qu...
Paramveer S. Dhillon, Sundararajan Sellamanickam, ...
CLEF
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Overview of iCLEF 2008: Search Log Analysis for Multilingual Image Retrieval
This paper summarises activities from the iCLEF 2008 task. In an attempt to encourage greater participation in user-orientated experiments, a new task was organised based on users...
Julio Gonzalo, Paul Clough, Jussi Karlgren
SIGIR
2005
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Predicting query difficulty on the web by learning visual clues
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...