In this paper we report on a study of implicit feedback models for unobtrusively tracking the information needs of searchers. Such models use relevance information gathered from se...
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, C. J. van Rijsberge...
We present an approach to the discovery of semantically similar terms that utilizes a web search engine as both a source for generating related terms and a tool for estimating the...
Contextual advertising (also called content match) refers to the placement of small textual ads within the content of a generic web page. It has become a significant source of rev...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Marcus Fontoura, Va...
We propose and evaluate a query expansion mechanism that supports searching and browsing in collections of annotated documents. Based on generative language models, our feedback me...
In many data mining applications, online labeling feedback is only available for examples which were predicted to belong to the positive class. Such applications include spam filt...