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WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Retroactive answering of search queries
Major search engines currently use the history of a user's actions (e.g., queries, clicks) to personalize search results. In this paper, we present a new personalized service...
Beverly Yang, Glen Jeh
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Determining the user intent of web search engine queries
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho
ACL
2011
14 years 9 months ago
Piggyback: Using Search Engines for Robust Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition
We use search engine results to address a particularly difficult cross-domain language processing task, the adaptation of named entity recognition (NER) from news text to web que...
Stefan Rüd, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Jens M&uu...
SEMCO
2008
IEEE
16 years 17 days ago
Exploiting Semantic Query Context to Improve Search Ranking
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan