An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), similar to blogs, newsgroups, online forums, etc., are online broadcasting spaces where people can exchange ideas and make announcements. As BBS are b...
Sponsored search mechanisms have drawn much attention from both academic community and industry in recent years since the seminal papers of [3] and [4]. However, most of the exist...
This paper extends previous work on document retrieval and document type classification, addressing the problem of ‘typed search’. Specifically, given a query and a designated ...
Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Nick Craswell, Yalou H...
Keyword search is widely recognized as a convenient way to retrieve information from XML data. In order to precisely meet users' search concerns, we study how to effectively r...
Zhifeng Bao, Jiaheng Lu, Tok Wang Ling, Liang Xu, ...