This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
The phenomenal growth of video on the web and the increasing sparseness of meta information associated with it forces us to look for signals from the video content for search/info...
Ming Zhao 0003, Jay Yagnik, Hartwig Adam, David Ba...