In order to search within corpora written in two or more languages, the simplest and most effective approach is to translate the submitted request into the required language(s). To...
Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...
A substantial portion of web traffic consists of queries to database web servers. Unfortunately, a common technique to improve web scalability, proxy caching, is ineffective for da...
Qiong Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Rajasekar Krishnam...
Link analysis has been used to enhance retrieval results of the web search for years. PageRank and HITS are the two well-known algorithms widely used by most researchers. The form...
We analyse the statistical behavior of query-associated quantities in query-logs, namely, the sum and mean of IDF of query terms, otherwise known as query specificity and query mea...