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GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Global ranking by exploiting user clicks
It is now widely recognized that user interactions with search results can provide substantial relevance information on the documents displayed in the search results. In this pape...
Shihao Ji, Ke Zhou, Ciya Liao, Zhaohui Zheng, Gui-...
ECIR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Hybrid Relevance-Feedback Approach to Text Retrieval
Abstract. Relevance feedback (RF) has been an effective query modification approach to improving the performance of information retrieval (IR) by interactively asking a user whet...
Zhao Xu, Xiaowei Xu, Kai Yu, Volker Tresp
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting hierarchical relationships in conceptual search
As the number of available Web pages grows, users experience increasing difficulty finding documents relevant to their interests. One of the underlying reasons for this is that mo...
Devanand Ravindran, Susan Gauch
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An eye tracking study of the effect of target rank on web search
Web search engines present search results in a rank ordered list. This works when what a user wants is near the top, but sometimes the information that the user really wants is lo...
Zhiwei Guan, Edward Cutrell