Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Current user interfaces for Web search, including browsers and search engine sites, typically treat search as a transient activity. However, people often conduct complex, multique...
The World-Wide Web (WWW) is an ever growing, distributed, non-administered, global information resource. It resides on the worldwide computer network and allows access to heteroge...
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
Query recommendation has been recognized as an important mean to help users search and also improve the usability of search engines. Existing approaches mainly focus on helping us...