We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Abstract. With information proliferation on the Web, how to obtain highquality information from the Web has been one of hot research topics in many fields like Database, IR as well...
We present a simple and effective approach to complement search results for children's web queries with child-oriented multimedia results, such as coloring pages and music sh...
In the last years the user information seeking process on the Web has shifted from document search to object search. Hence, the answers provided by Web search engines cannot consis...
The popularity of web objects, and by extension the popularity of the web sites, besides the appearance of clear footprints in user's accesses that show a considerable spatia...