Information retrieval systems are frequently required to handle long queries. Simply using all terms in the query or relying on the underlying retrieval model to appropriately wei...
Due to both the size and growth of the internet, new tools are needed to assist with the finding and extraction of very specific resources relevant to a user's task. Previous...
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
In Web search ranking, the expected results for some queries could vary greatly depending upon location of the user. We name such queries regional sensitive queries. Identifying r...
Srinivas Vadrevu, Ya Zhang, Belle L. Tseng, Gordon...
In this poster, we present a method for extracting queries related to real-life events, or news-related queries, from large web query logs. The method employs query frequencies an...
Michael Maslov, Alexander Golovko, Ilya Segalovich...