Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
It is widely believed that the value of acquiring a slot in a sponsored search list (that comes along with the organic links in a search engine’s result page) highly depends on ...
Machine Learned Ranking approaches have shown successes in web search engines. With the increasing demands on developing effective ranking functions for different search domains, ...
Keke Chen, Rongqing Lu, C. K. Wong, Gordon Sun, La...
This paper introduces a new method for linking the world view of the search engine user community with that of the search engine itself. This new method is based on collecting and...
Einat Amitay, Adam Darlow, David Konopnicki, Uri W...
Progressive sequence model refinement by means of iterative searches is an effective technique for high sensitivity database searches and is currently employed in popular tools s...