Personalization has been deemed one of the major challenges in information retrieval with a significant potential for providing better search experience to individual users. Espec...
Julia Luxenburger, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weiku...
There is an exploding amount of user-generated content on the Web due to the emergence of "Web 2.0" services, such as Blogger, MySpace, Flickr, and del.icio.us. The part...
Ka Cheung Sia, Junghoo Cho, Yun Chi, Belle L. Tsen...
Search nodes are single-purpose components of large Web search engines and their efficient implementation is critical to sustain thousands of queries per second and guarantee indi...
Background: The study of biological systems demands computational support. If targeting a biological problem, the reuse of existing computational models can save time and effort. ...
Ron Henkel, Lukas Endler, Andre Peters, Nicolas Le...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...