Vertical search engines and web portals are gaining ground over the general-purpose engines due to their limited size and their high precision for the domain they cover. The number...
George Almpanidis, Constantine Kotropoulos, Ioanni...
The Web is a dynamic information environment. Web content changes regularly and people revisit Web pages frequently. But the tools used to access the Web, including browsers and s...
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling,...
Abstract Searching for entities is an emerging task in Information Retrieval for which the goal is finding well defined entities instead of documents matching the query terms. In t...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...
We present an approach for answering Entity Retrieval queries using click-through information in query log data from a commercial Web search engine. We compare results using click...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...
Web searching is a significant activity for many people seeking multimedia information. Major Web search engines, such as Alta Vista, are essential tools in the quest to locate re...