Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
Web spamming techniques aim to achieve undeserved rankings in search results. Research has been widely conducted on identifying such spam and neutralizing its influence. However,...
This paper describes an approach to optimize query by visual example results, by combining visual features and implicit user feedback in interactive video retrieval. To this end, ...
Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Ioannis ...
Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
Evaluating user preferences of web search results is crucial for search engine development, deployment, and maintenance. We present a real-world study of modeling the behavior of ...
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais, Rob...