There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
Consumer Generated Medias (CGMs) -- such as blogs, news forums, message boards, and web pages -- are emerging as locations where consumers trade, discuss and influence each other...
Amit Behal, Julia Grace, Linda Kato, Ying Chen, Sh...
This paper presents a creativity support tool, called FreePub, to collect and organize scientific material using mindmaps. Mindmaps are visual, graph-based represenations of concep...
Adversarial IR in general, and search engine spam, in particular, are engaging research topics with a real-world impact for Web users, advertisers and publishers. The AIRWeb works...
Carlos Castillo, Kumar Chellapilla, Dennis Fetterl...
Faceted search is becoming a popular method to allow users to interactively search and navigate complex information spaces. A faceted search system presents users with keyvalue me...