This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
A representation of the World Wide Web as a directed graph, with vertices representing web pages and edges representing hypertext links, underpins the algorithms used by web search...
Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...
Presence of duplicate documents in the World Wide Web adversely affects crawling, indexing and relevance, which are the core building blocks of web search. In this paper, we pres...
Hema Swetha Koppula, Krishna P. Leela, Amit Agarwa...
A use case involving integrating results from search engines illustrates how the meta-metadata language facilitates interoperable metadata semantics. Formal semantics can be hard ...
Yin Qu, Andruid Kerne, Andrew M. Webb, Aaron Herst...