Web search engines are composed of a large set of search nodes and a broker machine that feeds them with queries. A location cache keeps minimal information in the broker to regist...
Web-search queries are known to be short, but little else is known about their structure. In this paper we investigate the applicability of part-of-speech tagging to typical Engli...
The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known difficulties is the tendency of users to use short, under-specified...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...