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ESWS
2009
Springer
16 years 15 days ago
Reducing Ambiguity in Tagging Systems with Folksonomy Search Expansion
Abstract. Search facilities are vital for folksonomy (or social tagging mechanism) based systems. Although these systems allow great malleability and adaptability, they also surfer...
Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Taylor, Edward Thomas
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
ROAR: increasing the flexibility and performance of distributed search
To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...
AMR
2007
Springer
120views Multimedia» more  AMR 2007»
16 years 4 days ago
Searching for Music Using Natural Language Queries and Relevance Feedback
We extend an approach to search inside large-scale music collections by enabling the user to give feedback on the retrieved music pieces. In the original approach, a search engine ...
Peter Knees, Gerhard Widmer
EPEW
2007
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
Evaluation of P2P Search Algorithms for Discovering Trust Paths
Abstract. Distributed security models based on a ‘web of trust’ eliminate single points of failure and alleviate performance bottlenecks. However, such distributed approaches r...
Emerson Ribeiro de Mello, Aad P. A. van Moorsel, J...
KDD
2005
ACM
177views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims