Abstract. The standard business model in the sponsored search marketplace is to sell click-throughs to the advertisers. This involves running an auction that allocates advertisemen...
Sai-Ming Li, Mohammad Mahdian, Randolph Preston Mc...
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
The transition of search engine usersā intents has been studied for a long time. The knowledge of intent transition, once discovered, can yield a better understanding of how diļ...
We describe a machine learning approach for predicting sponsored search ad relevance. Our baseline model incorporates basic features of text overlap and we then extend the model t...
Dustin Hillard, Stefan Schroedl, Eren Manavoglu, H...
Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...