This paper presents an extensive study about the evolution of textual content on the Web, which shows how some new pages are created from scratch while others are created using al...
Short search engine queries do not provide contextual information, making it difficult for traditional search engines to understand what users are really requesting. One approach ...
Ajith Kodakateri Pudhiyaveetil, Susan Gauch, Hiep ...
There has been considerable work on user browsing models for search engine results, both organic and sponsored. The click-through rate (CTR) of a result is the product of the prob...
Ramakrishnan Srikant, Sugato Basu, Ni Wang, Daryl ...
The non-English Web is growing at breakneck speed, but available language processing tools are mostly English based. Taxonomies are a case in point: while there are plenty of comm...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich...
A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza...