The web has become an important medium for news delivery and consumption. Fresh content about a variety of topics, events, and places is constantly being created and published on ...
Given a user keyword query, current Web search engines return a list of individual Web pages ranked by their "goodness" with respect to the query. Thus, the basic unit fo...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li
Aggregated search is the task of incorporating results from different specialized search services, or verticals, into Web search results. While most prior work focuses on deciding...
Jaime Arguello, Fernando Diaz, Jamie Callan, Ben C...
Tables are ubiquitous in web pages and scientific documents. With the explosive development of the web, tables have become a valuable information repository. Therefore, effective...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...