This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Understanding query intent is essential to generating appropriate rankings for users. Existing methods have provided customized rankings to answer queries with different intent. W...
Chor et al [3] show that when accessing a single public database, a user is only guaranteed safety from an administrator inferring the user's real intentions (an inference at...
Both search engine click-through log and social annotation have been utilized as user feedback for search result re-ranking. However, to our best knowledge, no previous study has ...
Jun Yan, Ning Liu, Elaine Qing Chang, Lei Ji, Zhen...
This paper addresses several problems associated with the specification of Web searches, and the retrieval, filtering, and rating of Web pages in order to improve the relevance, pr...