As the Web continues to grow, it has become increasingly difficult to search for relevant information using traditional search engines. Topic-specific search engines provide an al...
In this paper, we report results of an investigation into the factors influencing the selection of sponsored links by e-commerce Web searchers. In this research, 56 participants e...
Web search engines are often presented with user queries that involve comparisons of real-world entities. Thus far, this interaction has typically been captured by users submittin...
Users attempt to express their search goals through web search queries. When a search goal has multiple components or aspects, documents that represent all the aspects are likely ...
A pressing task during the unification process is to identify a user's vertical search intention based on the user's query. In this paper, we propose a novel method to p...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Weiguo Fan, Qiang Yang, Zheng C...