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...
Studies find that at least 20% of web queries have local intent; and the fraction of queries with local intent that originate from mobile properties may be twice as high. The eme...
Petros Venetis, Hector Gonzalez, Christian S. Jens...
We introduce EntityEngine, a system for answering entityrelationship queries over text. Such queries combine SQLlike structures with IR-style keyword constraints and therefore, ca...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...