Search engines have turned into one of the most important services of the Web that are frequently visited by any user. They assist their users in finding appropriate information. ...
Semantic search promises to produce precise answers to user queries by taking advantage of the availability of explicit semantics of information in the context of the semantic web....
Recurrent event queries (REQ) constitute a special class of search queries occurring at regular, predictable time intervals. The freshness of documents ranked for such queries is ...
Modeling a user’s click-through behavior in click logs is a challenging task due to the well-known position bias problem. Recent advances in click models have adopted the examin...
Botao Hu, Yuchen Zhang, Weizhu Chen, Gang Wang, Qi...
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...