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AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Semi-Supervised Ensemble Ranking
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin
ADC
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search.
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
COMAD
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Information Integration: Challenges and Approaches
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
Sharma Chakravarthy
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Improving search engines using human computation games
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
KDD
2002
ACM
169views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
14 years 8 months ago
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Thorsten Joachims