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A ranking is an ordered sequence of items, in which an item with higher ranking score is more preferred than the items with lower ranking scores. In many information systems, rankings are widely used to represent the preferences over a set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Zhiwei Lin , Yi Li , Xiaolian Guo

Internet users highly rely on and trust web search engines, such as Google, to find relevant information online. However, scholars have documented numerous biases and inaccuracies in search outputs. To improve the quality of search results,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Aleksandra Urman , Aniko Hannak , Mykola Makhortykh

Legal case retrieval, which aims to retrieve relevant cases to a given query case, benefits judgment justice and attracts increasing attention. Unlike generic retrieval queries, legal case queries are typically long and the definition of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Youchao Zhou , Heyan Huang , Zhijing Wu

The many metrics employed for the evaluation of search engine results have not themselves been conclusively evaluated. We propose a new measure for a metric's ability to identify user preference of result lists. Using this measure, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Pavel Sirotkin

We present a model of competition between web search algorithms, and study the impact of such competition on user welfare. In our model, search providers compete for customers by strategically selecting which search results to display in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-16 David Kempe , Brendan Lucier

In interactive information retrieval, researchers consider the user behavior towards systems and search tasks in order to adapt search results by analyzing their past interactions. In this paper, we analyze the user behavior towards Marcia…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Ameni Kacem , Philipp Mayr

This paper critically audits the search endpoint of YouTube's Data API (v3), a common tool for academic research. Through systematic weekly searches over six months using eleven queries, we identify major limitations regarding completeness,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Bernhard Rieder , Adrian Padilla , Oscar Coromina

Keyword-based searches are today's standard in digital libraries. Yet, complex retrieval scenarios like in scientific knowledge bases, need more sophisticated access paths. Although each document somewhat contributes to a domain's body of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hermann Kroll , Pascal Sackhoff , Timo Breuer , Ralf Schenkel , Wolf-Tilo Balke

There is an explosive growth of information in the World Wide Web thus posing a challenge to Web users to extract essential knowledge from the Web. Search engines help us to narrow down the search in the form of Search Engine Result Pages…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Srikantaiah K C , Suraj M , Venugopal K R , L M Patnaik

Large-scale retrieval systems are often implemented as a cascading sequence of phases -- a first filtering step, in which a large set of candidate documents are extracted using a simple technique such as Boolean matching and/or static…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Charles L. A. Clarke , J. Shane Culpepper , Alistair Moffat

In e-commerce, head queries account for the vast majority of gross merchandise sales and improvements to head queries are highly impactful to the business. While most supervised approaches to search perform better in head queries vs. tail…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Jon Eskreis-Winkler , Yubin Kim , Andrew Stanton

Crowdsourcing and data mining can be used to effectively reduce the effort associated with the partial replication and enhancement of qualitative studies. For example, in a primary study, other researchers explored factors influencing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Di Chen , Kathyrn Stolee , Tim Menzies

Significant parts of cultural heritage are produced on the web during the last decades. While easy accessibility to the current web is a good baseline, optimal access to the past web faces several challenges. This includes dealing with…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Nattiya Kanhabua , Philipp Kemkes , Wolfgang Nejdl , Tu Ngoc Nguyen , Felipe Reis , Nam Khanh Tran

Now no web search engine can cover more than 60 percent of all the pages on Internet. The update interval of most pages database is almost one month. This condition hasn't changed for many years. Converge and recency problems have become…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Wang Liang , Guo YiPing , Fang Ming

Searching is an important tool of information gathering, if information is in the form of picture than it play a major role to take quick action and easy to memorize. This is a human tendency to retain more picture than text. The complexity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Anamika Sharma

Search engines have become key media for our scientific, economic, and social activities by enabling people to access information on the Web in spite of its size and complexity. On the down side, search engines bias the traffic of users…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2009-02-19 Santo Fortunato , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer , Alessandro Vespignani

Previous work suggests that performance of cross-lingual information retrieval correlates highly with the quality of Machine Translation. However, there may be a threshold beyond which improving query translation quality yields little or no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bryan Zhang , Amita Misra

The web contains a vast corpus of HTML tables. They can be used to provide direct answers to many web queries. We focus on answering two classes of queries with those tables: those seeking lists of entities (e.g., `cities in california')…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Kaushik Chakrabarti , Zhimin Chen , Siamak Shakeri , Guihong Cao , Surajit Chaudhuri

Study shows that software developers spend about 19% of their time looking for information in the web during software development and maintenance. Traditional web search forces them to leave the working environment (e.g., IDE) and look for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Shamima Yeasmin , Chanchal K. Roy

Generative search engines increasingly determine whether online information is merely discoverable, cited as a source, or actually absorbed into generated answers. This paper proposes a two-stage measurement framework for Generative Engine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zhang Kai , He Xinyue , Yao Jingang