Mining feedback information from user click-through data is an important issue for modern Web retrieval systems in terms of architecture analysis, performance evaluation and algor...
Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Bo Zhou, Liyun ...
Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
The ability to deal with uncertain information is becoming increasingly important for modern database applications. Whereas a conventional (certain) object is usually represented ...
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
Many ranking models have been proposed in information retrieval, and recently machine learning techniques have also been applied to ranking model construction. Most of the existin...
Xiubo Geng, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Andrew Arnold, H...