Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
In this paper, we sketch a method for clustering e-commerce search engines by the type of products/services they sell. This method utilizes the special features of interface pages...
Abstract. Collecting relevance judgments (qrels) is an especially challenging part of building an information retrieval test collection. This paper presents a novel method for crea...
We propose a simple yet eective approach to context sensitive synonym discovery for Web search queries based on co-click analysis; i.e., analyzing queries leading to clicking sam...
Using a ground truth extracted from the Wikipedia, and a ground truth created through manual assessment, we show that the apparent performance advantage seen in machine learning a...