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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Searching with context
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
Reiner Kraft, Chi-Chao Chang, Farzin Maghoul, Ravi...
ACSC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An investigation on a community's web search variability
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Justin Zobel
EDBT
2006
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Efficient Quantile Retrieval on Multi-dimensional Data
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Yufei Tao
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Maximal termsets as a query structuring mechanism
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Bruno Pôssas, Nivio Ziviani, Berthier A. Rib...