In a social news website people share content they found on the web, called news, then vote for those they like the most. Voting for a news is then considered as a recommendation,...
Thomas Largillier, Guillaume Peyronnet, Sylvain Pe...
In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...