Adaptation of offline vertical selection predictions in the presence of user feedback

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 323-330

  Diaz, Fernando ^a   Arguello, Jaime ^b  

^a Yahoo Labs Montreal   (Canada)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregated search; Distributed information retrieval; Resource selection; Simulation; User feedback; Vertical selection

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; FEED BACK INFORMATION; OFFLINE; RESOURCE SELECTION; SEARCH SYSTEM; SPECIALIZED CORPORA; USER FEEDBACK; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; SIMULATORS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 72449126173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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