Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
In this paper we address the problem of identifying a broad range of term variations in Japanese web search queries, where these variations pose a particularly thorny problem due ...
Understanding how users tailor their SPARQL queries is crucial when designing query evaluation engines or ļ¬ne-tuning RDF stores with performance in mind. In this paper we analyz...
A meta-search engine propagates user queries to its participant search engines following a server selection strategy. To facilitate server selection, the metasearch engine must ke...