This work details the experiments carried out using the Indri search engine for the ad hoc retrieval task in the TREC 2007 Million Query Track. We investigate using proximity feat...
Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
Kapil Goenka, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Mustafa Nur...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
Web-search queries are known to be short, but little else is known about their structure. In this paper we investigate the applicability of part-of-speech tagging to typical Engli...
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...