In order to increase retrieval precision, some new search engines provide manually verified answers to Frequently Asked Queries (FAQs). An underlying task is the identification of...
In this paper we propose a method that, given a query submitted to a search engine, suggests a list of related queries. The related queries are based in previously issued queries, ...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Carlos A. Hurtado, Marcelo...
A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...
-- This paper proposes to enhance search query log analysis by taking into account the semantic properties of query terms. We first describe a method for extracting a global semant...
Lyes Limam, David Coquil, Harald Kosch, Lionel Bru...
—User profiling is a fundamental component of any personalization applications. Most existing user profiling strategies are based on objects that users are interested in (i.e., p...