Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...
Abstract Homepages usually describe important semantic information about conceptual or physical entities, and are hence the main targets for searching and browsing. To facilitate s...
The success of the Semantic Web depends on the availability of Web pages annotated with metadata. Free form metadata or tags, as used in social bookmarking and folksonomies, have ...
Topic distillation is one of the main information needs when users search the Web. In previous approaches to topic distillation, the single page was treated as the basic searching ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Guang Feng, W...
We present a hybrid method to turn off-the-shelf information retrieval (IR) systems into future event predictors. Given a query, a time series model is trained on the publication...