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Mohamed Abdel Maksoud
dblp:116/9255
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2017
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › ranking
learning to rank |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | CitySearcher: A City Search Engine For Interests · SIGIR 2017 |
Information retrieval
ranking |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | CitySearcher: A City Search Engine For Interests · SIGIR 2017 |
Information retrieval › web search
vertical search |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | CitySearcher: A City Search Engine For Interests · SIGIR 2017 |
Information retrieval › search engines
semantic search |
0.1 | 1 | 2017 | CitySearcher: A City Search Engine For Interests · SIGIR 2017 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
word2vec · 0.3learning to rank · 0.3clustering · 0.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | CitySearcher: A City Search Engine For InterestsabstractWe introduce CitySearcher, a vertical search engine that searches for cities when queried for an interest. Generally in search engines, utilization of semantics between words is favorable for performance improvement. Even though ambiguous query words have multiple semantic meanings, search engines can return diversified results to satisfy different users' information needs. But for CitySearcher, mismatched semantic relationships can lead to extremely unsatisfactory results. For example, the city Sale would incorrectly rank high for the interest shopping because of semantic interpretations of the words. Thus in our system, the main challenge is to eliminate the mismatched semantic relationships resulting from the side effect of the semantic models. In the previous case, we aim to ignore the semantics of a city's name which is not indicative of the city's characteristics. In CitySearcher, we use word2vec, a very popular word embedding technique to estimate the semantics of the words and create the initial ranks of the cities. To reduce the effect of the mismatched semantic relationships, we generate a set of features for learning based on a novel clustering-based method. With the generated features, we then utilize learning to rank algorithms to rerank the cities for return. We use the English version of Wikivoyage dataset for evaluation of our system, where we sample a very small dataset for training. Experimental results demonstrate the performance gain of our system over various standard retrieval techniques. Mohamed Abdel Maksoud, Gaurav Pandey 0003, Shuaiqiang Wang |
SIGIR | 1 |