A major difference between corporate intranets and the Internet is that in intranets the barrier for users to create web pages is much higher. This limits the amount and quality o...
Pavel A. Dmitriev, Nadav Eiron, Marcus Fontoura, E...
Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
We investigate the automatic generation of topic pages as an alternative to the current Web search paradigm. We describe a general framework, which combines query log analysis to ...
This paper describes a new procedure that has been developed for extending an existing on-line information system about The Voyages of the Beagle with information collected automat...