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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
WEBI
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Performance of Web Services Query Matchmaking with Automated Knowledge Acquisition
There is a critical need to design and develop tools tract away the fundamental complexity of XML-based Web services specifications and toolkits, and provide an elegant, intuitive...
Chaitali Gupta, Rajdeep Bhowmik, Michael R. Head, ...
COLING
2002
13 years 8 months ago
Searching the Web by Voice
Spoken queries are a natural medium for searching the Web in settings where typing on a keyboard is not practical. This paper describes a speech interface to the Google search eng...
Alexander Franz, Brian Milch
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
What queries are likely to recur in web search?
We study the recurrence dynamics of queries in Web search by analysing a large real-world query log dataset. We find that query frequency is more useful in predicting collective ...
Dell Zhang, Jinsong Lu
NSDI
2010
13 years 10 months ago
WebProphet: Automating Performance Prediction for Web Services
Today, large-scale web services run on complex systems, spanning multiple data centers and content distribution networks, with performance depending on diverse factors in end syst...
Zhichun Li, Ming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, A...