There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
Recent advances in click model have positioned it as an attractive method for representing user preferences in web search and online advertising. Yet, most of the existing works f...
Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Tom Minka, Chenguan...
Recently the re-ranking algorithms have been quite popular for web search and data mining. However, one of the issues is that those algorithms treat the content and link informati...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...