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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
BIBE
2007
IEEE
169views Bioinformatics» more  BIBE 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Combining Semantics, Context, and Statistical Evidence in Genomics Literature Search
—We present an information retrieval model for combining evidence from concept-based semantics, term statistics, and context for improving search precision of genomics literature...
Jay Urbain, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
WSDM
2012
ACM
285views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 4 months ago
Probabilistic models for personalizing web search
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Maximal termsets as a query structuring mechanism
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Bruno Pôssas, Nivio Ziviani, Berthier A. Rib...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Studying trailfinding algorithms for enhanced web search
Search engines return ranked lists of Web pages in response to queries. These pages are starting points for post-query navigation, but may be insufficient for search tasks involvi...
Adish Singla, Ryen White, Jeff Huang