SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Aggregated search is the task of blending results from specialized search services or verticals into the Web search results. While many studies have focused on aggregated search t...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Many of the recent, and more effective, retrieval models have incorporated dependencies between the terms in the query. In this paper, we advance this query representation one st...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Web search components such as ranking and query suggestions analyze the user data provided in query and click logs. While this data is easy to collect and provides information abo...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) today is dominated by techniques that use token-to-token mappings from bilingual dictionaries. Yet, state-of-the-art statistical transl...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Enterprise search is challenging for several reasons, notably the dynamic terminology and jargon that are specific to the enterprise domain. This challenge is partly addressed by...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
In this paper, we tackle the problem of top-N context-aware recommendation for implicit feedback scenarios. We frame this challenge as a ranking problem in collaborative filterin...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
We give a fresh look into score normalization for merging result-lists, isolating the problem from other components. We focus on three of the simplest, practical, and widelyused l...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Content on the Internet is always changing. We explore the value of biasing search result snippets towards new webpage content. We present results from a user study comparing trad...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
The term online reputation addresses trust relationships amongst agents in dynamic open systems. These can appear as ratings, recommendations, referrals and feedback. Several repu...