Search engine click logs provide an invaluable source of relevance information but this information is biased because we ignore which documents from the result list the users have...
In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised learning approach for classifying program (bot) generated web search traffic from that of genuine human users. The work is motivated by...
Hongwen Kang, Kuansan Wang, David Soukal, Fritz Be...
We explore the use of the landing page content in sponsored search ad selection. Specifically, we compare the use of the ad’s intrinsic content to augmenting the ad with the wh...
Yejin Choi, Marcus Fontoura, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, ...
Clustering of search results has been shown to be advantageous over the simple list presentation of search results. However, in most clustering interfaces, the clusters are not ada...
The effects of neutrality on evolutionary search have been considered in a number of interesting studies, the results of which, however, have been contradictory. Some researchers ...