This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Many researchers have noted that web search queries are often ambiguous or unclear. We present an approach for identifying the popular meanings of queries using web search logs an...
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...
Knowledge about user goals is crucial for realizing the vision of intelligent agents acting upon user intent on the web. In a departure from existing approaches, this paper propos...
Markus Strohmaier, Peter Prettenhofer, Mark Kr&oum...
The World Wide Web is a collection of databases as well as web sites. Databases associated with web sites provide public access via query forms on web pages. They constitute an en...