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WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Automatic identification of user goals in Web search
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...
Uichin Lee, Zhenyu Liu, Junghoo Cho
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WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 29 days ago
Automatic extraction of clickable structured web contents for name entity queries
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Xiao Li, Yi-Chin Tu
147
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SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
CN
2000
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15 years 5 months ago
Query routing for Web search engines: architecture and experiments
General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...
Atsushi Sugiura, Oren Etzioni
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Map-Based Range Query Processing for Geographic Web Search Systems
In order to utilize geographic web information for digital city applications, we have been developing a geographic web search system, KyotoSEARCH. When users retrieve geographic in...
Ryong Lee, H. Shiina, Taro Tezuka, Yusuke Yokota, ...