Improving local search ranking through external logs

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 785-794

  Berberich, Klaus ^a   König, Arnd Christian ^b   Lymberopoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Zhao, Peixiang ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation; Measurement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEASUREMENT;

CLICKTHROUGH DATA; DATA-SOURCES; EXPERIMENTATION; EXTERNAL DATA SOURCES; FEATURE GENERATION; INCOMPLETE DATA; LOCAL SEARCH ENGINES; QUERY AND SEARCH;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80052120694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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