Contextual advertising supports much of the Web's ecosystem today. User experience and revenue (shared by the site publisher ad the ad network) depend on the relevance of the...
Abstract. Machine learning techniques are increasingly being applied to problems in the domain of information retrieval and text mining. In this paper we present an application of ...
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgment information. Buckley and Voorhees recently demonstrated that retrieval systems can be efficiently...
In this paper, we propose a web-based bilingual concordancer, DOMCAT 1 , for domain-specific computer assisted translation. Given a multi-word expression as a query, the system in...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...