Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
In Web search ranking, the expected results for some queries could vary greatly depending upon location of the user. We name such queries regional sensitive queries. Identifying r...
Srinivas Vadrevu, Ya Zhang, Belle L. Tseng, Gordon...
Many Web information services utilize techniques of information extraction (IE) to collect important facts from the Web. To create more advanced services, one possible method is t...
This paper addresses the problem of topic distillation on the World Wide Web, namely, given a typical user query to find quality documents related to the query topic. Connectivity...
Business users in an enterprise need to keep track of relevant information available on the Web for strategic decisions like mergers and acquisitions. Traditionally this is done by...