This paper investigates whether Web comments are of descriptive nature, that is, whether the combined text of a set of comments is similar in topic to the commented object. If so,...
This paper explores the problem of computing pairwise similarity on document collections, focusing on the application of “more like this” queries in the life sciences domain. ...
The need for evaluating large amounts of topics (queries) makes IR evaluation an uneasy task. In this paper, we study a topic selection problem for IR evaluation. The selection cr...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Co...
We define and study the process of context transfer in search advertising, which is the transition of a user from the context of Web search to the context of the landing page tha...
Hila Becker, Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich...
We study the recurrence dynamics of queries in Web search by analysing a large real-world query log dataset. We find that query frequency is more useful in predicting collective ...