SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
2012
ACM
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
2012
ACM
Combating Web spam is one of the greatest challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art anti-spam techniques focus mainly on detecting varieties of spam strategies, such as ...
WSDM
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2011
ACM
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
KCAP
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2011
ACM
Enriching knowledge bases with multimedia information makes it possible to complement textual descriptions with visual and audio information. Such complementary information can he...
ECIR
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2011
Springer
In large web search engines the performance of Information Retrieval systems is a key issue. Block-based compression methods are often used to improve the search performance, but c...
DASFAA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a method to search the Web for sentence substitutions for a given sentence query. Our method uses only lexico-syntactic patterns dynamically generated fro...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2011
ACM
Understanding how people interact with search engines is important in improving search quality. Web search engines typically analyze queries and clicked results, but these actions...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2011
ACM
In this paper, we propose a system for helping users to judge the credibility of Web search results and to search for credible Web pages. Conventional Web search engines present o...