Most product search engines today build on models of relevance devised for information retrieval. However, the decision mechanism that underlies the process of buying a product is...
In the era of digital information, the value of data resides not only in its volume and quality, but also in the additional information that can be inferred from the combination (a...
Daniele Braga, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Michael Gr...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
It is now widely recognized that user interactions with search results can provide substantial relevance information on the documents displayed in the search results. In this pape...
Shihao Ji, Ke Zhou, Ciya Liao, Zhaohui Zheng, Gui-...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...