Relevance Ranking for Vertical Search Engines

"The authors of this book are active researchers in vertical search technology. This book provides researchers and application developers a comprehensive overview of the general concepts, techniques, and applications in vertical search." --Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President of Engineering at Google

"This is an excellent book that gives the first and comprehensive introduction and overview on vertical search, an emerging and important field! Researchers and practitioners will find this book provides a comprehensive overview and systematic treatment on theories, methodologies and practices for vertical search ranking, covering several very promising topics, such as search on news and medical information, entity search, mobile search, as well as multi-aspect ranking, aggregating vertical search ranking and cross vertical ranking. I found it a great pleasure to read!" --Jiawei Han, Abel Bliss Professor, Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign