It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...
The aim of binding-time analysis is to determine when variables, expressions, statements, etc. in a program can be evaluated by classifying these into static (compile-time) and dy...
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
With the success of blogs as popular information sharing media, searches on blogs have become popular. In the blogosphere, tagging is used as a means of annotating blog entries wi...
Semantic similarity between words or phrases is frequently used to find matching correlations between search queries and documents when straightforward matching of terms fails. Th...