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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Predicting query reformulation during web searching
This paper reports results from a study in which we automatically classified the query reformulation patterns for 964,780 Web searching sessions (composed of 1,523,072 queries) in...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
ISMB
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Advanced Query Mechanisms for Biological Databases
Existing query interfaces for biological databases are either based on fixed forms or textual query languages. Users of a fixed form-based query interface are limited to performin...
I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz,...
SEMCO
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Semantic Query Context to Improve Search Ranking
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
The Role of Queries in Ranking Labeled Instances Extracted from Text
A weakly supervised method uses anonymized search queries to induce a ranking among class labels extracted from unstructured text for various instances. The accuracy of the extrac...
Marius Pasca