In this paper, we propose a simple framework to characterize the switching behavior between search engines based on click streams. We segment users into a number of categories bas...
This paper reports our research in the Web page filtering process in specialized search engine development. We propose a machine-learning-based approach that combines Web content a...
The Hypertext-based Webs such as Intranets contain a vast amount of information pertaining to an enormous number of subjects. It is, however, an organically grown and thus essentia...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...