Query formulation is an essential part of successful information retrieval. The challenges in formulating effective queries are emphasized in web information search, because the w...
Internet search engines identify web pages that contain user-specified keywords, and then rank these pages according to their (heuristically assessed) relevance to the user’s qu...
Many search engines and other web applications suggest auto-completions as the user types in a query. The suggestions are generated from hidden underlying databases, such as query...
In this paper, we describe a novel Web query processing approach with learning capabilities. Under this approach, user queries are in the form of keywords and search engines are e...
In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...