Query recommendation suggests related queries for search engine users when they are not satisfied with the results of an initial input query, thus assisting users in improving sear...
We propose mixtures of hidden Markov models for modelling clickstreams of web surfers. Hence, the page categorization is learned from the data without the need for a (possibly cumb...
The deep web contains an order of magnitude more information than the surface web, but that information is hidden behind the web forms of a large number of web sites. Metasearch e...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Jeffrey Nicho...
The placement of Websites in ranked retrieval and the viewing patterns of Web search engine users is a crucial issue for Web site owners and Web search engines. However, little la...
Mining user profiles is a crucial task for Web usage mining, and can be accomplished by mining frequent patterns. However, in the Web usage domain, sessions tend to be very sparse,...