We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
The World Wide Web is now providing hundreds of powerful search facilities, often for free, enabling people to access an enormous amount of information. The most successful search...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...
A weakly supervised method uses anonymized search queries to induce a ranking among class labels extracted from unstructured text for various instances. The accuracy of the extrac...
This article presents a high-level discussion of some problems that are unique to web search engines. The goal is to raise awareness and stimulate research in these areas.