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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...
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
We describe results from Web search log studies aimed at elucidating user behaviors associated with queries and destination URLs that appear with different frequencies. We note th...
Doug Downey, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling, ...
ICDE
2006
IEEE
164views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 8 months ago
Nearest Surrounder Queries
In this paper, we study a new type of spatial query, Nearest Surrounder (NS), which searches the nearest surrounding spatial objects around a query point. NS query can be more use...
Ken C. K. Lee, Wang-Chien Lee, Hong Va Leong
LAWEB
2008
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
(Query) History Teaches Everything, Including the Future
“History Teaches Everything, Including the Future”, wrote Alphonse de Lamartine in the nineteen century. Even if history cannot be really considered a predictive science, hist...
Fabrizio Silvestri, Ranieri Baraglia, Claudio Lucc...
AMR
2006
Springer
119views Multimedia» more  AMR 2006»
15 years 8 months ago
The Potential of User Feedback Through the Iterative Refining of Queries in an Image Retrieval System
Inaccurate or ambiguous expressions in queries lead to poor results in information retrieval. We assume that iterative user feedback can improve the quality of queries. To this end...
Maher Ben Moussa, Marco Pasch, Djoerd Hiemstra, Pa...