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Clarification is increasingly becoming a vital factor in various topics of information retrieval, such as conversational search and modern Web search engines. Prompting the user for clarification in a search session can be very beneficial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ivan Sekulić , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

Relevance plays a central role in information retrieval (IR), which has received extensive studies starting from the 20th century. The definition and the modeling of relevance has always been critical challenges in both information science…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yixing Fan , Jiafeng Guo , Xinyu Ma , Ruqing Zhang , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng

Recommendation systems have traditionally relied on short-term engagement signals, such as clicks and likes, to personalize content. However, these signals are often noisy, sparse, and insufficient for capturing long-term user satisfaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Saeideh Bakhshi , Phuong Mai Nguyen , Robert Schiller , Tiantian Xu , Pawan Kodandapani , Andrew Levine , Cayman Simpson , Qifan Wang

Existing neural relevance models do not give enough consideration for query and item context information which diversifies the search results to adapt for personal preference. To bridge this gap, this paper presents a neural learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Deguang Kong , Daniel Zhou , Zhiheng Huang , Steph Sigalas

"High Quality Related Search Query Suggestions" task aims at recommending search queries which are real, accurate, diverse, relevant and engaging. Obtaining large amounts of query-quality human annotations is expensive. Prior work on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Praveen Kumar Bodigutla

Exploratory information search can challenge users in the formulation of efficacious search queries. Moreover, complex information spaces, such as those managed by Geographical Information Systems, can disorient people, making it difficult…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Noemi Mauro , Liliana Ardissono

Simulating user interactions enables a more user-oriented evaluation of information retrieval (IR) systems. While user simulations are cost-efficient and reproducible, many approaches often lack fidelity regarding real user behavior. Most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Björn Engelmann , Timo Breuer , Jana Isabelle Friese , Philipp Schaer , Norbert Fuhr

The recent adoption of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for session modeling has yielded substantial performance gains compared to previous approaches. In terms of context-aware session modeling, however, the existing RNN-based models are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Younghun Song , Jae-Gil Lee

Click models are an important tool for leveraging user feedback, and are used by commercial search engines for surfacing relevant search results. However, existing click models are lacking in two aspects. First, they do not share…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Dinesh Govindaraj , Tao Wang , S. V. N. Vishwanathan

Relevance is an underlying concept in the field of Information Science and Retrieval. It is a cognitive notion consisting of several different criteria or dimensions. Theoretical models of relevance allude to interdependence between these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Sagar Uprety , Shahram Dehdashti , Lauren Fell , Peter Bruza , Dawei Song

Context information in search sessions has proven to be useful for capturing user search intent. Existing studies explored user behavior sequences in sessions in different ways to enhance query suggestion or document ranking. However, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yutao Zhu , Jian-Yun Nie , Zhicheng Dou , Zhengyi Ma , Xinyu Zhang , Pan Du , Xiaochen Zuo , Hao Jiang

Currently, the quality of a search engine is often determined using so-called topical relevance, i.e., the match between the user intent (expressed as a query) and the content of the document. In this work we want to draw attention to two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Aleksandr Chuklin , Maarten de Rijke

In product search, users tend to browse results on multiple search result pages (SERPs) (e.g., for queries on clothing and shoes) before deciding which item to purchase. Users' clicks can be considered as implicit feedback which indicates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Keping Bi , Choon Hui Teo , Yesh Dattatreya , Vijai Mohan , W. Bruce Croft

Session-based recommendation aims to predict user the next action based on historical behaviors in an anonymous session. For better recommendations, it is vital to capture user preferences as well as their dynamics. Besides, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Xiaoyong Huai , Zhiqi Fang , Songlin Hu

The article presents an online relevancy tuning method using explicit user feedback. The author developed and tested a method of words' weights modification based on search result evaluation by user. User decides whether the result is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Boris Mark Tylevich

Recommender systems help users find relevant items of interest, for example on e-commerce or media streaming sites. Most academic research is concerned with approaches that personalize the recommendations according to long-term user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Malte Ludewig , Dietmar Jannach

Delivering superior search services is crucial for enhancing customer experience and driving revenue growth. Conventionally, search systems model user behaviors by combining user preference and query item relevance statically, often through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yejing Wang , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao , Qidong Liu , Maolin Wang , Xuetao Wei , Zitao Liu , Xing Shi , Xudong Yang , Ling Zhong , Wei Lin

Relevance feedback techniques assume that users provide relevance judgments for the top k (usually 10) documents and then re-rank using a new query model based on those judgments. Even though this is effective, there has been little…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Keping Bi , Qingyao Ai , W. Bruce Croft

Since a user usually has to issue a sequence of queries and examine multiple documents to resolve a complex information need in a search session, researchers have paid much attention to evaluating search systems at the session level rather…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Haonan Chen , Zhicheng Dou , Jiaxin Mao

Boosting sales of e-commerce services is guaranteed once users find more matching items to their interests in a short time. Consequently, recommendation systems have become a crucial part of any successful e-commerce services. Although…