We address the task of learning rankings of documents from search engine logs of user behavior. Previous work on this problem has relied on passively collected clickthrough data. ...
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
As we move from a Web of data to a Web of services, enhancing the capabilities of the current Web search engines with effective and efficient techniques for Web services retrieva...
With the advent of the Web and the efforts towards a Semantic Web the nature of knowledge engineering has changed drastically. In this position paper we propose four principles fo...
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...