For many ranking applications we would like to understand not only which items are top-ranked, but also why they are top-ranked. However, many of the best ranking algorithms (e.g....
Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi, Bert C. Huang, David L. Walt...
Abstract--Search engines have greatly influenced the way people access information on the Internet as such engines provide the preferred entry point to billions of pages on the Web...
Ao-Jan Su, Y. Charlie Hu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, C...
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...
The Google search engine has enjoyed huge success with its web page ranking algorithm, which exploits global, rather than local, hyperlink structure of the web using random walks....
Dengyong Zhou, Jason Weston, Arthur Gretton, Olivi...
Abstract. We propose a popularity weighted ranking algorithm for academic digital libraries that uses the popularity factor of a publication venue overcoming the limitations of imp...
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Abstract. We present PlanetP, a peer-to-peer (P2P) content search and retrieval infrastructure targeting communities wishing to share large sets of text documents. P2P computing is...
Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Christopher Peery, ...
Abstract. The focus of web search is moving away from returning relevant documents towards returning structured data as results to user queries. A vital part in the architecture of...
Abstract. In many application domains, e.g. sensor databases, traffic management or recognition systems, objects have to be compared based on positionally and existentially uncert...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...
According to a recent survey made by Nielsen NetRatings, searching on news articles is one of the most important activity online. Indeed, Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others have p...
Gianna M. Del Corso, Antonio Gulli, Francesco Roma...