We present several methods for mining knowledge from the query logs of the MSN search engine. Using the query logs, we build a time series for each query word or phrase (e.g., `Th...
Michail Vlachos, Christopher Meek, Zografoula Vage...
Blogging has been an emerging media for people to express themselves. However, the presence of spam-blogs (also known as splogs) may reduce the value of blogs and blog search engi...
Person name queries often bring up web pages that correspond to individuals sharing the same name. The Web People Search (WePS) task consists of organizing search results for ambi...
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...