A token is hidden in one of several boxes and then the boxes are locked. The probability of placing the token in each of the boxes is known. A searcher is looking for the token by...
Amotz Bar-Noy, Panagiotis Cheilaris, Yi Feng 0002,...
Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result...
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost...
The collective contributions of billions of users across the globe each day result in an ever-changing web. In verticals like news and real-time search, recency is an obvious sign...