Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
In this research, we evaluate the effect of gender in analyzing the performance of sponsored search advertising. We examine a log file with data comprised of nearly 7,000,000 reco...
Traditional desktop search engines only support keyword based search that needs exact keyword matching to find resources. However, users generally have a vague picture of what is...
We consider the following full-text search autocompletion feature. Imagine a user of a search engine typing a query. Then with every letter being typed, we would like an instant d...
Localized search engines are small-scale systems that index a particular community on the web. They offer several benefits over their large-scale counterparts in that they are rel...