Nowadays, people tend to learn from the Web because it is convenient, and rich of free information. The main means of learning on the Web is by submitting a query to a search engi...
Contextual information provides an important basis for identifying and understanding users' information needs. Our previous work in traditional information retrieval systems ...
Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result...
Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
Many have speculated that classifying web pages can improve a search engine's ranking of results. Intuitively results should be more relevant when they match the class of a q...
Paul N. Bennett, Krysta Marie Svore, Susan T. Duma...