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IRI
2007
IEEE
16 years 18 days ago
Acronym-Expansion Recognition and Ranking on the Web
The paper presents a study on large-scale automatic extraction of acronyms and associated expansions from Web data and from the user interactions with this data through Web search...
Alpa Jain, Silviu Cucerzan, Saliha Azzam
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Capturing page freshness for web search
Freshness has been increasingly realized by commercial search engines as an important criteria for measuring the quality of search results. However, most information retrieval met...
Na Dai, Brian D. Davison
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Informing decisions: how people use online rating information to make choices
In this paper we investigate how people use online rating information to inform decision making. We examine whether a theory of searching for information to discriminate between a...
Stelios Lelis, Andrew Howes
ADBIS
2007
Springer
110views Database» more  ADBIS 2007»
16 years 15 days ago
Design of Web Agents Inspired by Brain Research
The paper presents an approach to combine knowledge from memory and brain sciences with information retrieval research in the design of Web agents. An information retrieval agent f...
Maya Dimitrova, Hiroaki Wagatsuma, Yoko Yamaguchi