This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Abstract. When you search for information regarding a particular person on the web, a search engine returns many pages. Some of these pages may be for people with the same name. Ho...
MIWeb realizes a mediator-based integration of heterogeneous metadata sources over the Web. Mediators are well known from database integration. They improve the quality of search ...
In world wide web, a document is usually made up of multiple pages, each one of which has a unique URL address and links to each other by hyperlink pointers. Related documents are...
One hundred users, one hundred needs. As more and more topics are being discussed on the web and our vocabulary remains relatively stable, it is increasingly difficult to let the ...