Abstract. The focus of web search is moving away from returning relevant documents towards returning structured data as results to user queries. A vital part in the architecture of...
An expert finding is a very common task among enterprise search activities, while its usual retrieval performance is far from the quality of the Web search. Query modeling helps t...
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
The problem of automatically extracting the most interesting and relevant keyword phrases in a document has been studied extensively as it is crucial for a number of applications. ...