Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
—Captchas are designed to be easy for humans but hard for machines. However, most recent research has focused only on making them hard for machines. In this paper, we present wha...
Elie Bursztein, Steven Bethard, Celine Fabry, John...
We describe our experience with a new algorithm for the reconstruction of surfaces from unorganized sample points in IR 3. The algorithm is the first for this problem with provab...
Nina Amenta, Marshall W. Bern, Manolis Kamvysselis
Pseudo-relevance feedback assumes that most frequent terms in the pseudo-feedback documents are useful for the retrieval. In this study, we re-examine this assumption and show tha...
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen R...
This paper examines the estimation of global term weights (such as IDF) in information retrieval scenarios where a global view on the collection is not available. In particular, t...