We propose a new Web search system that helps users clarify their information needs through interaction. The system represents the user's information needs using a query grap...
This paper describes a novel approach to the presentation of results from web-search by utilizing the semantic correlations amongst the retrieved results as well as their spatio-t...
Rahul Singh, Ya-Wen Hsu, Wen-Cheng Sun, Dil Chitau...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Search systems have for some time provided users with the ability to request documents similar to a given document. Interfaces provide this feature via a link or button for each d...
This paper introduces a novel link-based ranking algorithm based on a model of focused Web surfers. FocusedRank is described and compared to implementations of PageRank and Topic-...
Philip O'Brien, Tony Abou-Assaleh, Tapajyoti Das, ...