In the past conversational recommender systems have adopted a similarity-based approach to recommendation, preferring cases that are similar to some user query or profile. Recent ...
We consider example-critiquing systems that help people search for their most preferred item in a large catalog. We first analyze how such systems can help users in the framework ...
Internet search engines identify web pages that contain user-specified keywords, and then rank these pages according to their (heuristically assessed) relevance to the user’s qu...
This paper presents a method for generating indexable and browsable keyword metadata from ASR transcripts by leveraging the Web. Search engine queries are built from an ASR transc...
Kishan Thambiratnam, Gang Li, Sha Meng, Frank Seid...
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...