For this year's web track, we concentrated on the entry page finding task. For the content-only runs, in both the ad-hoc task and the entry page finding task, we used an infor...
This research characterizes the spontaneous spoken disfluencies typical of human-computer interaction, and presents a predictive model accounting for their occurrence. Data were c...
A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza...
This paper uses the URL word breaking task as an example to elaborate what we identify as crucialin designingstatistical natural language processing (NLP) algorithmsfor Web scale ...
Kuansan Wang, Christopher Thrasher, Bo-June Paul H...
The task of selecting information and rendering it appropriately appears in multiple contexts in summarization. In this paper we present a model that simultaneously optimizes sele...