Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
A major hardness of processing searches issued in the form of keywords on structured data is the ambiguity problem. A set of keywords itself is not a complete piece of information...
Query-based web search is an integral part of many people’s daily activities. Most do not realize that their search history can be used to identify them (and their interests). I...
We report on a study that was undertaken to better identify users' goals behind web search queries by using click through data. Based on user logs which contain over 80 millio...
In this paper, we describe an approach to recognizing location from mobile devices using image-based web search. We demonstrate the usefulness of common image search metrics appli...