In this paper, we propose to mine query hierarchies from clickthrough data, which is within the larger area of automatic acquisition of knowledge from the Web. When a user submits...
Dou Shen, Min Qin, Weizhu Chen, Qiang Yang, Zheng ...
Query logs record the queries and the actions of the users of search engines, and as such they contain valuable information about the interests, the preferences, and the behavior ...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, De...
—Search engine companies collect the “database of intentions”, the histories of their users’ search queries. These search logs are a gold mine for researchers. Search engin...
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...
When searching large hypertext document collections, it is often possible that there are too many results available for ambiguous queries. Query refinement is an interactive proce...