We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
In this paper I discuss some of the criteria that are widely used in the linguistic and philosophical literature to classify an aspect of meaning as either semantic or pragmatic. W...
When employing cryptographic tunnels such as the ones provided by Secure Shell (SSH) to protect their privacy on the Internet, users expect two forms of protection. First, they aim...
Maurizio Dusi, Alice Este, Francesco Gringoli, Luc...
Web entities, such as documents and hyperlinks, are created for different purposes, or intents. Existing intent-based retrieval methods largely focus on information seekers’ int...
The Netherlands had parliamentary elections on November 22, 2006. We built a system which helped voters to make an informed choice among the many participating parties. One of the...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, ...