The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
A variety of web sites and web based services produce textual lists at varying time granularities ranked according to several criteria. For example, Google Trends produces lists o...
Traditional desktop search engines only support keyword based search that needs exact keyword matching to find resources. However, users generally have a vague picture of what is...
The paper proposes identifying relevant information sources from the history of combined searching and browsing behavior of many Web users. While it has been previously shown that...
This paper presents a method for generating indexable and browsable keyword metadata from ASR transcripts by leveraging the Web. Search engine queries are built from an ASR transc...
Kishan Thambiratnam, Gang Li, Sha Meng, Frank Seid...