Abstract-Search engines, such as Google, assign scores to news articles based on their relevancy to a query. However, not all relevant articles for the query may be interesting to ...
Raymond K. Pon, Alfonso F. Cardenas, David Buttler...
Understanding the intent underlying user queries may help personalize search results and improve user satisfaction. In this paper, we develop a methodology for using ad clickthroug...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Scalable similarity search is the core of many large scale learning or data mining applications. Recently, many research results demonstrate that one promising approach is creatin...
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...