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WWW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Addressing people's information needs directly in a web search result page
Web search engines have historically focused on connecting people with information resources. For example, if a person wanted to know when their flight to Hyderabad was leaving, a...
Lydia B. Chilton, Jaime Teevan
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Web image retrieval reranking with multi-view clustering
General image retrieval is often carried out by a text-based search engine, such as Google Image Search. In this case, natural language queries are used as input to the search eng...
Mingmin Chi, Peiwu Zhang, Yingbin Zhao, Rui Feng, ...
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Exploiting site-level information to improve web search
Ranking Web search results has long evolved beyond simple bag-of-words retrieval models. Modern search engines routinely employ machine learning ranking that relies on exogenous r...
Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josif...
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
ICSE
2012
IEEE-ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Detecting similar software applications
—Although popular text search engines allow users to retrieve similar web pages, source code search engines do not have this feature. Detecting similar applications is a notoriou...
Collin McMillan, Mark Grechanik, Denys Poshyvanyk