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
Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this pa...
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 ...
Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...
Set expansion refers to expanding a partial set of “seed” objects into a more complete set. One system that does set expansion is SEAL (Set Expander for Any Language), which e...