By examining searcher behavior on a large search engine, we have identified seven basic kinds of task behaviors that can be observed in web search session logs. In the studies rep...
Daniel M. Russell, Diane Tang, Melanie Kellar, Rob...
Although content-based image retrieval has been studied for decades, most commercial image search engines are still text-based. However, there is a growing demand for techniques to...
Web search engines work well for finding crawlable pages, but not for finding datasets hidden behind Web search forms. We describe a novel technique for detecting search forms, ...
In this paper, we present a folksonomy-based approach for implicit user intent extraction during a Web search process. We present a number of result re-ranking techniques based on...
This paper introduces the concept of a Parameterised Search System (PSS), which allows flexibility in user queries, and, more importantly, allows system engineers to easily defin...