We evaluate three different relevance feedback (RF) algorithms, Rocchio, Robertson/Sparck-Jones (RSJ) and Bayesian, in the context of Web search. We use a target-testing experimen...
Vishwa Vinay, Kenneth R. Wood, Natasa Milic-Frayli...
The field of algorithms for pairwisc biosequence similarity search is dominated by heuristic methods of high efficiency but uncertain sensitivity. One reason that more formal stri...
Results clustering in Web Searching is useful for providing users with overviews of the results and thus allowing them to restrict their focus to the desired parts. However, the ta...
Abstract—Search context is a crucial factor that helps to understand a user’s information need in ad-hoc Web page retrieval. A query log of a search engine contains rich inform...
To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...