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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The importance of anchor text for ad hoc search revisited
It is generally believed that propagated anchor text is very important for effective Web search as offered by the commercial search engines. “Google Bombs” are a notable illus...
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Surface street traffic estimation
In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method of identifying traffic conditions on surface streets given location traces collected from on-road vehicles--this requires o...
Jungkeun Yoon, Brian Noble, Mingyan Liu
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Re-ranking search results using query logs
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...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters
Optimising the parameters of ranking functions with respect to standard IR rank-dependent cost functions has eluded satisfactory analytical treatment. We build on recent advances ...
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, S...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis