When building scalable systems that involve general-purpose computation and persistent data, object-oriented languages and relational databases are often essential components. Yet...
The Implicit Query (IQ) prototype is a system which automatically generates context-sensitive searches based on a user’s current computing activities. In the demo, we show IQ ru...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric...
In this paper, we propose to mine query hierarchies from clickthrough data, which is within the larger area of automatic acquisition of knowledge from the Web. When a user submits...
Dou Shen, Min Qin, Weizhu Chen, Qiang Yang, Zheng ...
: Search technology can be applied to many applications and is in the heart of always growing information society. A promising new development is the use of ontologies to enable se...
Felix Burkhardt, Jon Atle Gulla, Jin Liu, Christia...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...