Finding relevant information on the Web can be a complex task for most of the users. Although Web search applications are improving, they still need to be more intelligent to adapt...
There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
Current search engines generally employ link analysis techniques to web-page re-ranking. However, the same techniques are problematic in small webs, such as websites or intranet w...
Abstract: Some emerging trends in the recent development of the WWW can be observed. These trends are technical, like Web Services, as well as semantic, like the integration of ont...
In this paper, we exploit a novel ranking mechanism that processes query samples with noisy labels, motivated by the practical application of web image search re-ranking where the...