Understanding query intent is essential to generating appropriate rankings for users. Existing methods have provided customized rankings to answer queries with different intent. W...
The AncestorRank algorithm calculates an authority score by using just one characteristic of the web graph—the number of ancestors per node. For scalability, we estimate the num...
The core task of sponsored search is to retrieve relevant ads for the user’s query. Ads can be retrieved either by exact match, when their bid term is identical to the query, or...
Michael Bendersky, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josi...
Related entity finding is the task of returning a ranked list of homepages of relevant entities of a specified type that need to engage in a given relationship with a given sour...
In recent years, there has been a prevalence of search engines being employed to find useful information in the Web as they efficiently explore hyperlinks between web pages which ...
Zhenglu Yang, Lin Li, Botao Wang, Masaru Kitsurega...