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SEMWEB
2009
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
Investigating the Semantic Gap through Query Log Analysis
Significant efforts have focused in the past years on bringing large amounts of metadata online and the success of these efforts can be seen by the impressive number of web site...
Peter Mika, Edgar Meij, Hugo Zaragoza
ECML
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Mining the Web for Synonyms: PMI-IR versus LSA on TOEFL
Abstract. This paper presents a simple unsupervised learning algorithm for recognizing synonyms, based on statistical data acquired by querying a Web search engine. The algorithm, ...
Peter D. Turney
KDD
2006
ACM
167views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Identifying "best bet" web search results by mining past user behavior
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
Eugene Agichtein, Zijian Zheng
ACSC
2008
IEEE
16 years 23 days ago
An investigation on a community's web search variability
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Justin Zobel
NAACL
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Query Ambiguity Revisited: Clickthrough Measures for Distinguishing Informational and Ambiguous Queries
Understanding query ambiguity in web search remains an important open problem. In this paper we reexamine query ambiguity by analyzing the result clickthrough data. Previously pro...
Yu Wang, Eugene Agichtein