It has been widely observed that search queries are composed in a very different style from that of the body or the title of a document. Many techniques explicitly accounting for...
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
There are significant barriers to academic research into user Web search preferences. Academic researchers are unable to manipulate the results shown by a major search engine to ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranar...
User experience in social media involves rich interactions with the media content and other participants in the community. In order to support such communities, it is important to...
Elena Zheleva, John Guiver, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigu...
Social networking sites and other examples of online social spaces have greatly expanded their members’ opportunities for self expression and social interaction, while creating ...