Blending Vertical and Web Results [chapter]

Damien Lefortier, Pavel Serdyukov, Fedor Romanenko, Maarten de Rijke
2014 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Modern search engines aggregate results from specialized verticals into the Web search results. We study a setting where vertical and Web results are blended into a single result list, a setting that has not been studied before. We focus on video intent and present a detailed observational study of Yandex's two video content sources (i.e., the specialized vertical and a subset of the general web index) thus providing insights into their complementary character. By investigating how to blend
more » ... lts from these sources, we contrast traditional federated search and fusion-based approaches with newly proposed approaches that significantly outperform the baseline methods.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_16 fatcat:esmrbhdhgffmjhe7pac3kv3t3m