Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
Abstract—We present a method for modeling, and automatically inferring, the current interest of a user in search advertising. Our task is complementary to that of predicting ad r...
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein, Charles L. A. Clarke, Az...
Current peer-to-peer file-sharing systems mostly work on wired networks. Mobile ad hoc network is characterized as multi-hop wireless communications between mobile devices. In thi...
Web search logs contain extremely sensitive data, as evidenced by the recent AOL incident. However, storing and analyzing search logs can be very useful for many purposes (i.e. in...
Abstract-- Sponsored search auctions form a multibillion dollar industry. Search providers auction advertisement slots on search result pages to advertisers who are charged only if...