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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Brand awareness and the evaluation of search results
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Re-ranking search results using query logs
This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
AIR
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
Further Experiments on Collaborative Ranking in Community-Based Web Search
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
NIPS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluating Search Engines by Modeling the Relationship Between Relevance and Clicks
We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...
Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones
IEEECIT
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Collective Intelligence-Based Web Page Search: Combining Folksonomy and Link-Based Ranking Strategy
— With the exponentially growing amount of information available on the Internet, retrieving web pages of interest has become increasingly difficult. While several web page recom...
Tao Zhang, Byungjeong Lee, Sooyong Kang, Hanjoon K...