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...
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
The primary business model behind Web search is based on textual advertising, where contextually relevant ads are displayed alongside search results. We address the problem of sel...
Filip Radlinski, Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, ...
Blog feed search poses different and interesting challenges from traditional ad hoc document retrieval. The units of retrieval, the blogs, are collections of documents, the blog p...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, J...
The Markov Random Walk model has been recently exploited for multi-document summarization by making use of the link relationships between sentences in the document set, under the ...