Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
This paper studies document ranking under uncertainty. It is tackled in a general situation where the relevance predictions of individual documents have uncertainty, and are depen...
It has been observed that precision increases with collection size. One explanation could be that the redundancy of information increases, making it easier to find multiple docum...
The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and efficient distributed searching. Distributed searching is cast in three parts – datab...
Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Calla...