There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
Given a document repository, search engine is very helpful to retrieve information. Currently, vertical search is a hot topic, and Google Scholar [4] is an example for academic se...
Ye Wang, Zhihua Geng, Sheng Huang, Xiaoling Wang, ...
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to quickly find desired information without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search ...
Sofus A. Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Dav...