Judging by the millions of reviews left by guests on the Airbnb platform, this trusted
community marketplace for accommodations is fulfilling its mission of matching travelers with …

Web search is an integral part of our daily lives. Recently, there has been a trend of
personalization in Web search, where different users receive different results for the same …

Rank-Biased Overlap (RBO) is a similarity measure for indefinite rankings: it is top-weighted,
and can be computed when only a prefix of the rankings is known or when they have only …

We propose a simple and flexible framework for offline evaluation based on a weak ordering
of results (which we call" partial preferences") that define a set of ideal rankings for a query …

A core step in production model research and development involves the offline evaluation of
a system before production deployment. Traditional offline evaluation of search …

Despite the pervasiveness of search engines, most users know little about the implications
of search engine algorithms and are unaware of how they work. People using web search …

Selective search architectures use resource selection algorithms such as Rank-S or Taily to
rank index shards and determine how many to search for a given query. Most prior research …

We propose a new family of distance measures on rankings, derived through an axiomatic
approach, that consider the nonuniform relevance of the top and bottom of ordered lists and …

Visual clutter is a common challenge when visualizing large rank time series data.
WikiTopReader, a reader of Wikipedia page rank, lets users explore connections among top …

Rank similarity measures provide a method for quantifying differences between search
engine results without the need for relevance judgments. For example, the providers of a …