Web search is a challenging task. Previous research mainly exploits texts on the Web pages or link information between the pages, while multimedia information is largely ignored. ...
We propose a new approach to a music search engine that can be accessed via natural language queries. As with existing approaches, we try to gather as much contextual information a...
Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Markus Schedl, Dominik Sch...
This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
Search personalization has been pursued in many ways, in order to provide better result rankings and better overall search experience to individual users [5]. However, blindly app...
Julia Luxenburger, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weiku...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...