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CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Improving search engines using human computation games
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Sailer: an effective search engine for unified retrieval of heterogeneous xml and web documents
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Jianyong Wang, Xiaoming...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 4 months ago
Improving Web Search Relevance with Semantic Features
Most existing information retrieval (IR) systems do not take much advantage of natural language processing (NLP) techniques due to the complexity and limited observed effectivenes...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Gilad Mishne, Xing Wei, Ben...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 days ago
Query-related data extraction of hidden web documents
The larger amount of information on the Web is stored in document databases and is not indexed by general-purpose search engines (i.e., Google and Yahoo). Such information is dyna...
Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne E. James, M...
GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Mapping geographic coverage of the web
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...