When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
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...
Case-based reasoning aims to use past experience to solve new problems. A strong requirement for its application is that extensive experience base exists that provides statisticall...
We address the problem of measuring global quality metrics of search engines, like corpus size, index freshness, and density of duplicates in the corpus. The recently proposed est...
We evaluate three different relevance feedback (RF) algorithms, Rocchio, Robertson/Sparck-Jones (RSJ) and Bayesian, in the context of Web search. We use a target-testing experimen...
Vishwa Vinay, Kenneth R. Wood, Natasa Milic-Frayli...