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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Predicting query difficulty on the web by learning visual clues
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
DEXA
2006
Springer
197views Database» more  DEXA 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Cleaning Web Pages for Effective Web Content Mining
Classifying and mining noise-free web pages will improve on accuracy of search results as well as search speed, and may benefit webpage organization applications (e.g., keyword-bas...
Jing Li, Christie I. Ezeife
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
TREC
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Link-based Approaches for Text Retrieval
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
Julien Gevrey, Stefan M. Rüger
ECAGENTS
2001
Springer
127views ECommerce» more  ECAGENTS 2001»
13 years 12 months ago
User-Centered Agents for Structured Information Location
Abstract. This paper designs an electronic commerce system that integrates conventional electronic commerce services with contemporary WWW advantages, such as comprehensive coverag...
Xindong Wu, Daniel Ngu, Sameer Pradhan