General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
We introduce an experimental search engine for multilingual and multimedia information, employing a holistic web interface and enabling the use of highly distributed indices. Moda...
Konstantinos Zagoris, Avi Arampatzis, Savvas A. Ch...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
The prevalence of free text search in web search engines has inspired recent interest in keyword search on relational databases. Whereas relational queries formally specify matchi...
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...