We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries durin...
A growing mount of available text data are being stored in relational databases, giving rise to an increasing need for the RDBMSs to support effective text retrieval. In this pape...
Interactive query expansion (IQE) (c.f. Efthimiadis, 1996) is a potentially useful technique to help searchers formulate improved query statements, and ultimately retrieve better ...
Previous research has taught us that the typical nonprofessional information seeker on the World Wide Web submits very short queries resulting in low-precision results. We show th...
The continuous development of the Internet has resulted in an exponential increase in the amount of available information. A popular way to access this information is by submittin...