Search computing is a novel discipline whose goal is to answer complex, multi-domain queries. Such queries typically require combining in their results domain knowledge extracted ...
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to achieve this integration is by building sp...
Incorporating features extracted from clickthrough data (called clickthrough features) has been demonstrated to significantly improve the performance of ranking models for Web sea...
Hearing people argue opposing sides of an issue can be a useful way to understand the topic; however, these debates or conversations often don't exist. Unfortunately, generat...
Nathan D. Nichols, Lisa M. Gandy, Kristian J. Hamm...
Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...