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WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
BIBE
2007
IEEE
169views Bioinformatics» more  BIBE 2007»
16 years 19 days ago
Combining Semantics, Context, and Statistical Evidence in Genomics Literature Search
—We present an information retrieval model for combining evidence from concept-based semantics, term statistics, and context for improving search precision of genomics literature...
Jay Urbain, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
WSDM
2012
ACM
285views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
14 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic models for personalizing web search
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Maximal termsets as a query structuring mechanism
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Bruno Pôssas, Nivio Ziviani, Berthier A. Rib...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Studying trailfinding algorithms for enhanced web search
Search engines return ranked lists of Web pages in response to queries. These pages are starting points for post-query navigation, but may be insufficient for search tasks involvi...
Adish Singla, Ryen White, Jeff Huang