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KDD
2006
ACM
143views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Mining long-term search history to improve search accuracy
Long-term search history contains rich information about a user's search preferences. In this paper, we study statistical language modeling based methods to mine contextual i...
Bin Tan, Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
ICSNW
2004
Springer
238views Database» more  ICSNW 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Knowledge Sifter: Agent-Based Ontology-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Databases Using Semantic Web Services
Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
ADC
2003
Springer
153views Database» more  ADC 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Automated Discovery of Search Interfaces on the Web
Web search engines work well for finding crawlable pages, but not for finding datasets hidden behind Web search forms. We describe a novel technique for detecting search forms, ...
Jared Cope, Nick Craswell, David Hawking
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
SkipBlock: Self-indexing for Block-Based Inverted List
In large web search engines the performance of Information Retrieval systems is a key issue. Block-based compression methods are often used to improve the search performance, but c...
Stéphane Campinas, Renaud Delbru, Giovanni ...