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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...