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Richard Walsh
dblp:323/9647
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—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 since 2021
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 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › ranking
learning to rank |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Learning to Rank Instant Search Results with Multiple Indices: A Case Study in Search Aggregation for Entertainment · SIGIR 2022 |
Information retrieval › retrieval models › neural retrieval
neural ranking model |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Learning to Rank Instant Search Results with Multiple Indices: A Case Study in Search Aggregation for Entertainment · SIGIR 2022 |
Information retrieval › distributed information retrieval
result fusion |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Learning to Rank Instant Search Results with Multiple Indices: A Case Study in Search Aggregation for Entertainment · SIGIR 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
semantic matching · 0.6neural learning to rank · 0.6lexical matching · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Learning to Rank Instant Search Results with Multiple Indices: A Case Study in Search Aggregation for EntertainmentabstractAt Xfinity, an instant search system provides a variety of results for a given query from different sources. For each keystroke, new results are rendered on screen to the user, which could contain movies, television series, sporting events, music videos, news clips, person pages, and other result types. Users are also able to use the Xfinity Voice Remote to submit longer queries, some of which are more open-ended. Examples of queries include incomplete words which match multiple results through lexical matching (i.e., "ali"), topical searches ("vampire movies"), and more specific longer searches ("Movies with Adam Sandler"). Since results can be based on lexical matches, semantic matches, item-to-item similarity matches, or a variety of business logic driven sources, a key challenge is how to combine results into a single list. To accomplish this, we propose merging the lists via a Learning to Rank (LTR) neural model which takes into account the search query. This combined list can be personalized via a second LTR neural model with knowledge of the user's search history and metadata of the programs. Because instant search is under-represented in the literature, we present our learnings from research to aid other practitioners. Scott Rome, Sardar Hamidian, Richard Walsh, Kevin Foley, Ferhan Ture |
SIGIR | 3 |