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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
Personalizing web search results by reading level
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
DEXA
2011
Springer
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12 years 8 months ago
A Scalable Tag-Based Recommender System for New Users of the Social Web
Abstract. Folksonomies have become a powerful tool to describe, discover, search, and navigate online resources (e.g., pictures, videos, blogs) on the Social Web. Unlike taxonomies...
Valentina Zanardi, Licia Capra
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Exploiting web search engines to search structured databases
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
Arnd Christian König, Dong Xin, Kaushik Chakr...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Compressing term positions in web indexes
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
Hao Yan, Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas