We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
Since WWW encourages hypertext and hypermedia document authoring (e.g. HTML or XML), Web authors tend to create documents that are composed of multiple pages connected with hyperl...
Background: For ecological studies, it is crucial to count on adequate descriptions of the environments and samples being studied. Such a description must be done in terms of thei...
We address the issue of providing topic driven access to full text documents. The methodology we propose is a combination of topic segmentation and information retrieval techniques...
Caterina Caracciolo, Willem Robert van Hage, Maart...
Most text analysis is designed to deal with the concept of a “document”, namely a cohesive presentation of thought on a unifying subject. By contrast, individual nodes on the ...