Current Web search tools do a good job of retrieving documents that satisfy the wide range of intentions that people associate with a query – but do not do a very good job of di...
Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
Measuring the similarity between semantic relations that hold among entities is an important and necessary step in various Web related tasks such as relation extraction, informati...
Abstract. Anyone offering content in a digital library is naturally interested in assessing its performance: how well does my system meet the users' information needs? Standar...