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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani
TKDE
2012
227views Formal Methods» more  TKDE 2012»
12 years 24 days ago
Publishing Search Logs - A Comparative Study of Privacy Guarantees
—Search engine companies collect the “database of intentions”, the histories of their users’ search queries. These search logs are a gold mine for researchers. Search engin...
Michaela Götz, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Guozha...
KDD
2002
ACM
169views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
14 years 10 months ago
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Thorsten Joachims
GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
159views GIS» more  GISCIENCE 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Local methods for estimating pagerank values
The Google search engine uses a method called PageRank, together with term-based and other ranking techniques, to order search results returned to the user. PageRank uses link ana...
Yen-Yu Chen, Qingqing Gan, Torsten Suel