A major challenge in developing models for hypertext retrieval is to effectively combine content information with the link structure available in hypertext collections. Although s...
Binary decision trees based on univariate splits have traditionally employed so-called impurity functions as a means of searching for the best node splits. Such functions use estim...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
The problem of similarity search (query-by-content) has attracted much research interest. It is a difficult problem because of the inherently high dimensionality of the data. The ...
Query suggestion has been an effective approach to help users narrow down to the information they need. However, most of existing studies focused on only popular/head queries. Si...