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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Creating temporally dynamic web search snippets
Content on the Internet is always changing. We explore the value of biasing search result snippets towards new webpage content. We present results from a user study comparing trad...
Krysta Marie Svore, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais,...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Learning to suggest: a machine learning framework for ranking query suggestions
We consider the task of suggesting related queries to users after they issue their initial query to a web search engine. We propose a machine learning approach to learn the probab...
Umut Ozertem, Olivier Chapelle, Pinar Donmez, Emre...
COMAD
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Querying for Information Integration: How to go from an Imprecise Intent to a Precise Query?
In this paper, we address the problem of query formulation in the context of multi-domain integration of heterogeneous data on the Web. We argue that effectively tackling this pro...
Aditya Telang, Sharma Chakravarthy, Chengkai Li
DPD
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Evolutionary Algorithms for Allocating Data in Distributed Database Systems
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
Ishfaq Ahmad, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Yu-Kwong Kwok,...