Abstract. The following paper proposes a new kind of relevance feedback. It shows how so called query profiles can be employed for disambiguation and clarification. Query profiles ...
Traditional retrieval evaluation uses explicit relevance judgments which are expensive to collect. Relevance assessments inferred from implicit feedback such as click-through data...
Katja Hofmann, Bouke Huurnink, Marc Bron, Maarten ...
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
Kapil Goenka, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Mustafa Nur...
Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Bruno P&ocir...