It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
Personalization of web search results as a technique for improving user satisfaction has received notable attention in the research community over the past decade. Much of this wo...
Web pages are usually highly structured documents. In some documents, content with different functionality is laid out in blocks, some merely supporting the main discourse. In ot...