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...
Most queries in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Identifying the major senses and facets of queries from search log data, referred to as query subtopic mining in this pa...
Yunhua Hu, Ya-nan Qian, Hang Li, Daxin Jiang, Jian...
Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...
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 ...
In this paper a new approach for achieving the conceptual matching between user queries and web documents is presented. The key of the proposed system is to use FIS-CRM (Fuzzy Int...