Search result diversification is a natural approach for tackling ambiguous queries. Nevertheless, not all queries are equally ambiguous, and hence different queries could bene...
Keyword queries over structured databases are notoriously ambiguous. No single interpretation of a keyword query can satisfy all users, and multiple interpretations may yield over...
Elena Demidova, Peter Fankhauser, Xuan Zhou, Wolfg...
- Today there is a real challenge in accessing relevant information according to the needs and the context of the user. Recent studies have dynamically enhanced the user query with...
We study how to best use crowdsourced relevance judgments learning to rank [1, 7]. We integrate two lines of prior work: unreliable crowd-based binary annotation for binary classi...
Abstract. This paper presents a statistical framework based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for discovering the contextual factors which most strongly influence user behavio...