The dominant method for evaluating search engines is the Cranfield paradigm, but the existing metrics do not consider some modern search engines features, such as document snippets...
In this paper, we propose a multimodal Web image retrieval technique based on multi-graph enabled active learning. The main goal is to leverage the heterogeneous data on the Web t...
There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
New types of document collections are being developed by various web services. The service providers keep track of non-textual features such as click counts. In this paper, we pre...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon P...
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...