Today’s Web browsers allow users to open links in new windows or tabs. This action, which we call ‘branching’, is sometimes performed on search results when the user plans t...
This paper explores search behavior of online shoppers. Information economics literature suggests that search cost in electronic markets has essentially been reduced to zero as co...
We present a flexible new optimization framework for finding effective, reliable pseudo-relevance feedback models that unifies existing complementary approaches in a principled wa...
Numerous computational and deductive frameworks use the notion of strategy to guide reduction and search space exploration, making the macro scale control of micro operations an ex...
In this paper we describe our efforts to build a Mandarin Chinese voice search system. We describe our strategies for data collection, language, lexicon and acoustic modeling, as ...