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KDD
2002
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Thorsten Joachims
WSDM
2009
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Generating labels from clicks
The ranking function used by search engines to order results is learned from labeled training data. Each training point is a (query, URL) pair that is labeled by a human judge who...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthap...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
144views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Do we mean the same?: disambiguation of extracted keyword queries for database search
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
Elena Demidova, Irina Oelze, Peter Fankhauser
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised query categorization using automatically-built concept graphs
Automatic categorization of user queries is an important component of general purpose (Web) search engines, particularly for triggering rich, query-specific content and sponsored ...
Eustache Diemert, Gilles Vandelle
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill