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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Tangible interface for collaborative information retrieval
Most information retrieval (IR) interfaces are designed for a single user working with a dedicated interface. We present a system in which the IR interface has been fully integrat...
Alan F. Blackwell, Mark Stringer, Eleanor F. Toye,...
DBSEC
2004
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13 years 8 months ago
Why Is this User Asking so Many Questions? Explaining Sequences of Queries
A sequence of queries submitted by a database user within a short period of time may have a single, illuminating explanation. In this paper we consider sequences of single-record q...
Aybar C. Acar, Amihai Motro
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Search result diversity for informational queries
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
Michael J. Welch, Junghoo Cho, Christopher Olston
TREC
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Can We Get A Better Retrieval Function From Machine?
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox, Li Wang