In this survey, we provide an overview of the literature on knowledge graphs (KGs) in the
context of information retrieval (IR). Modern IR systems can benefit from information …

Recently, the focus of many novel search applications shifted from short keyword queries to
verbose natural language queries. Examples include question answering systems and …

The First Search Futures Workshop, in conjunction with the Fourty-sixth European
Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2024, looked into the future of search to ask …

Email responses often contain items---such as a file or a hyperlink to an external document---
that are attached to or included inline in the body of the message. Analysis of an enterprise …

In the physical world, people have dynamic preferences, eg, the same situation can lead to
satisfaction for some humans and to frustration for others. Personalization is called for. The …

Search engines rely heavily on term-based approaches that represent queries and
documents as bags of words. Text---a document or a query---is represented by a bag of its …

In this paper we study the problem of supporting similarity queries on a large number of
records using a vector space model, where each record is a bag of tokens. We consider …

Effective optimization is essential for real-world interactive systems to provide a satisfactory
user experience in response to changing user behavior. However, it is often challenging to …

Effective optimization is essential for interactive systems to provide a satisfactory user
experience. However, it is often challenging to find an objective to optimize for. Generally …

1. Introduction account for about half of the time spent on web search. These longer
sessions may involve exploring with learning [135, 228]. More frustrating for a user …