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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
ADC
2003
Springer
153views Database» more  ADC 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Automated Discovery of Search Interfaces on the Web
Web search engines work well for finding crawlable pages, but not for finding datasets hidden behind Web search forms. We describe a novel technique for detecting search forms, ...
Jared Cope, Nick Craswell, David Hawking
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
SkipBlock: Self-indexing for Block-Based Inverted List
In large web search engines the performance of Information Retrieval systems is a key issue. Block-based compression methods are often used to improve the search performance, but c...
Stéphane Campinas, Renaud Delbru, Giovanni ...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
92views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Task Behaviors During Web Search: The Difficulty of Assigning Labels
By examining searcher behavior on a large search engine, we have identified seven basic kinds of task behaviors that can be observed in web search session logs. In the studies rep...
Daniel M. Russell, Diane Tang, Melanie Kellar, Rob...
MCAM
2007
Springer
188views Multimedia» more  MCAM 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Searching One Billion Web Images by Content: Challenges and Opportunities
Although content-based image retrieval has been studied for decades, most commercial image search engines are still text-based. However, there is a growing demand for techniques to...
Zhiwei Li, Xing Xie, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma