In this paper, we show that most multiple term queries include more than one topic and users usually reformulate their queries by topics instead of terms. In order to provide empi...
Xuefeng He, Jun Yan, Jinwen Ma, Ning Liu, Zheng Ch...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
Open information spaces have several unique characteristics such as their changeability, large size, complexity and diverse user base. These result in novel challenges during user...
Any given Web search engine may provide higher quality results than others for certain queries. Therefore, it is in users' best interest to utilize multiple search engines. I...
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Mikhail Bilenko...
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...