SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Link Analysis has shown great potential in improving the performance of web search. PageRank and HITS are two of the most popular algorithms. Most of the existing link analysis al...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
: We consider the problem of collaborative Web search and query routing strategies in a peer-to-peer (P2P) environment. In our architecture every peer has a full-fledged search en...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
We describe an evaluation of result set filtering techniques for providing ultra-high precision in the task of presenting related news for general web queries. In this task, the n...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
We describe Web-a-Where, a system for associating geography with Web pages. Web-a-Where locates mentions of places and determines the place each name refers to. In addition, it as...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Capitalizing on the intuitive underlying assumptions of Language Modelling for Ad-Hoc Retrieval we present a novel approach that is capable of injecting the user’s context of th...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
We review a query log of hundreds of millions of queries that constitute the total query traffic for an entire week of a generalpurpose commercial web search service. Previously, ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper proposes a novel, unified, and systematic approach to combine collaborative and content-based filtering for ranking and user preference prediction. The framework inco...