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Search & information retrieval

Improving how people discover, understand, and use information through advances in search and retrieval.

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Unbiased Comparative Evaluation of Ranking Functions

Tobias Schnabel, Adith Swaminathan, Peter Frazier, Thorsten Joachims

ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval | September 2016

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Assessing the Impact of a Health Intervention via User-generated Internet Content

Vasileios Lampos, Elad Yom-Tov, Richard Pebody, Ingemar J. Cox

Data mining and knowledge discovery | September 2016

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Speech Processing on Multi-Genre Broadcast Media

September 6, 2016 | Yanmin Qian

There have been lots of research and work on broadcast speech since the mid-1990s, including transcription, diarization etc, but almost all have been limited domain – typically broadcast news. This talk will describe the recent…

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Enhancing Web Search with Queries of Equivalent Intents

Ruihua Song, Dingquan Wang, Jian-Yun Nie, Ji-Rong Wen, Yong Yu

September 2016, Vol 19(6): pp. 573-593

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Unsupervised Head-Modifier Detection in Search Queries

Zhongyuan Wang, Fang Wang, Haixun Wang, Zhirui Hu, Jun Yan, Fangtao Li, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhoujun Li

TKDD | September 2016

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Syntactic Complexity of Web Search Queries through the Lenses of Language Models, Networks and Users

Rishiraj Saha Roy, Smith Agarwal, Niloy Ganguly, Monojit Choudhury

Information Processing & Management | September 2016, pp. 923-948

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Data Services Leveraging Bing’s Data Assets

Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaudhuri, Zhimin Chen, Kris Ganjam

Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering | September 2016

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Effective and Efficient: Large-scale Dynamic City Express

Siyuan Zhang, Lu Qin, Yu Zheng, Hong Cheng

IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering | August 2016

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Blind Web search: How far are we from a privacy preserving search engine?

Gizem S. Çetin, Wei Dai, Yarkın Doröz, William J. Martin, Berk Sunar

August 2016

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LETOR: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval

Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Jun Xu, Hang Li

August 2016

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