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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A dynamic bayesian network click model for web search ranking
As with any application of machine learning, web search ranking requires labeled data. The labels usually come in the form of relevance assessments made by editors. Click logs can...
Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Comparing relevance feedback algorithms for web search
We evaluate three different relevance feedback (RF) algorithms, Rocchio, Robertson/Sparck-Jones (RSJ) and Bayesian, in the context of Web search. We use a target-testing experimen...
Vishwa Vinay, Kenneth R. Wood, Natasa Milic-Frayli...
WISE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
STC+ and NM-STC: Two Novel Online Results Clustering Methods for Web Searching
Results clustering in Web Searching is useful for providing users with overviews of the results and thus allowing them to restrict their focus to the desired parts. However, the ta...
Stella Kopidaki, Panagiotis Papadakos, Yannis Tzit...
NIPS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...