An indexing model is the heart of an Information Retrieval (IR) system. Data structures such as term based inverted indices have proved to be very effective for IR using vector sp...
The primary business model behind Web search is based on textual advertising, where contextually relevant ads are displayed alongside search results. We address the problem of sel...
Filip Radlinski, Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, ...
Searchers' difficulty in formulating effective queries for their information needs is well known. Analysis of search session logs shows that users often pose short, vague quer...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Abdur Chowdhury...
We propose and evaluate a query expansion mechanism that supports searching and browsing in collections of annotated documents. Based on generative language models, our feedback me...
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from...