Understanding the intent underlying user queries may help personalize search results and improve user satisfaction. In this paper, we develop a methodology for using ad clickthroug...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
Recently the concept of a clarity score was introduced in order to measure the ambiguity of a query in relation to the collection in which the query issuer is seeking information ...
Many researchers have noted that web search queries are often ambiguous or unclear. We present an approach for identifying the popular meanings of queries using web search logs an...
We have developed a data stream management system that supports declarative stream queries running over high data volumes in a supercomputing environment. To enable specification ...
User modeling for information retrieval has mostly been studied to improve the effectiveness of information access in centralized repositories. In this paper we explore user model...