This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
While much research has been performed on query logs collected for major Web search engines, query log analysis to enhance search on smaller and more focused collections has attrac...
Stephen Dignum, Udo Kruschwitz, Maria Fasli, Yunhy...
For most scientists, their research interests are dynamically changing all the time. Through an analysis of research interests, we find that all the changes are with some character...
Inaccurate or ambiguous expressions in queries lead to poor results in information retrieval. We assume that iterative user feedback can improve the quality of queries. To this end...
Maher Ben Moussa, Marco Pasch, Djoerd Hiemstra, Pa...
Abstract. The structural heterogeneity and complexity of XML repositories makes query formulation challenging for users who have little knowledge of XML. To assist its users, an XM...