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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
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Assessing the scenic route: measuring the value of search trails in web logs
Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result...
Ryen W. White, Jeff Huang
KDD
2004
ACM
146views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
14 years 10 months ago
Using Hyperlink Features to Personalize Web Search
Personalized search has gained great popularity to improve search effectiveness in recent years. The objective of personalized search is to provide users with information tailored ...
Mehmet S. Aktas, Mehmet A. Nacar, Filippo Menczer
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The impact of crawl policy on web search effectiveness
Crawl selection policy has a direct influence on Web search effectiveness, because a useful page that is not selected for crawling will also be absent from search results. Yet th...
Dennis Fetterly, Nick Craswell, Vishwa Vinay
EMNLP
2008
13 years 11 months ago
The Linguistic Structure of English Web-Search Queries
Web-search queries are known to be short, but little else is known about their structure. In this paper we investigate the applicability of part-of-speech tagging to typical Engli...
Cory Barr, Rosie Jones, Moira Regelson