The contribution of this paper includes three folders: (1) To introduce a topic-oriented query expansion model based on the Information Bottleneck theory that classify terms into ...
Abstract. We investigate the influence of term selection and query operations on the text retrieval component of video search. Our main finding is that the greatest gain is to be...
— Purpose: To investigate and identify the patterns of interaction between searchers and search engine during Web searching. Design: We examined 2,465,145 interactions from 534,5...
We present S3 , a system that implicitly captures the process and products of Web investigations (exploratory searches involving multiple queries). This automatically-created, pers...
It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...