This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Search engines are the primary gateways of information access on the Web today. Behind the scenes, search engines crawl the Web to populate a local indexed repository of Web pages...
Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web documents – i.e., RDF or OWL documents. It analyzes the documents it discovered to compute useful m...
Li Ding, Timothy W. Finin, Anupam Joshi, Rong Pan,...
Every day millions of users search for information on the web via search engines, and provide implicit feedback to the results shown for their queries by clicking or not onto them...
Carlos Castillo, Claudio Corsi, Debora Donato, Pao...
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...