In recent years, active learning methods based on experimental design achieve state-of-the-art performance in text classification applications. Although these methods can exploit ...
Motivated by the commonly used faceted search interface in e-commerce, this paper investigates interactive relevance feedback mechanism based on faceted document metadata. In this...
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
Search trails comprising queries and Web page views are created as searchers engage in information-seeking activity online. During known-item search (where the objective may be to...
Generative models such as statistical language modeling have been widely studied in the task of expert search to model the relationship between experts and their expertise indicat...