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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Smoothing clickthrough data for web search ranking
Incorporating features extracted from clickthrough data (called clickthrough features) has been demonstrated to significantly improve the performance of ranking models for Web sea...
Jianfeng Gao, Wei Yuan, Xiao Li, Kefeng Deng, Jian...
AIRS
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Effective Time Ratio: A Measure for Web Search Engines with Document Snippets
The dominant method for evaluating search engines is the Cranfield paradigm, but the existing metrics do not consider some modern search engines features, such as document snippets...
Jing He, Baihan Shu, Xiaoming Li, Hongfei Yan
WEBDB
2005
Springer
129views Database» more  WEBDB 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Searching for Hidden-Web Databases
Recently, there has been increased interest in the retrieval and integration of hidden Web data with a view to leverage high-quality information available in online databases. Alt...
Luciano Barbosa, Juliana Freire
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using titles and category names from editor-driven taxonomies for automatic evaluation
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
TREC
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Language Models for Searching in Web Corpora
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2004 Web and Terabyte tracks. For the web track, we employ mixture language models based on document full-text, incoming anchortext, and...
Jaap Kamps, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke