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2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Friends, romans, countrymen: lend me your URLs. using social chatter to personalize web search
People often find useful content on the web via social media. However, it is difficult to manually aggregate the information and recommendations embedded in a torrent of social ...
Abhinay Nagpal, Sudheendra Hangal, Rifat Reza Joye...
CIIT
2007
133views Communications» more  CIIT 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
A unified interface for visual and interactive web search
The interfaces used by the top Web search engines have changed very little since the early days of Web search. These interfaces follow the traditional model of information retriev...
Orland Hoeber, Xue Dong Yang
WSDM
2012
ACM
285views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 3 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...
WSDM
2012
ACM
207views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Domain bias in web search
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang