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COLING
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Utilizing User-input Contextual Terms for Query Disambiguation
Precision-oriented search results such as those typically returned by the major search engines are vulnerable to issues of polysemy. When the same term refers to different things,...
Byron J. Gao, David C. Anastasiu, Xing Jiang
INEX
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Analysis of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track Results
This paper analyzes the results of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track, focusing on a variety of topics. First, we examine in detail the relevance judgments. Second, we study the resulting ...
Jaap Kamps, Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Effective and efficient structured retrieval
Search engines that support structured documents typically support structure created by the author (e.g., title, section), and may also support structure added by an annotation pr...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
DL
1998
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Failure Analysis in Query Construction: Data and Analysis from a Large Sample of Web Queries
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Tefko Saracevic