As more information becomes available on the World Wide Web, it has become an acute problem to provide effective search tools for information access. Previous generations of search...
Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon...
Due to the rapidly increasing availability of audio files on the Web, it is relevant to augment search engines with advanced audio search functionality. In this context, the rank...
Maria M. Ruxanda, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Christian...
: This paper describes the progress of a research project aimed at improving the usability of web search tools for blind users who interact via screen readers and voice synthesizer...
Barbara Leporini, Patrizia Andronico, Marina Buzzi...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...