Information technology (IT) advances often create turmoil and disturb existing industry structures. We analyze the impact of the Internet and e-commerce technologies on digital int...
Nelson F. Granados, Robert J. Kauffman, Bradley Ki...
While current search engines serve known-item search such as homepage finding very well, they generally cannot support exploratory search effectively. In exploratory search, user...
Xuanhui Wang, Bin Tan, Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang ...
In this paper, we propose to improve the effectiveness of biomedical information retrieval via a medical thesaurus. We analyzed the deficiencies of the existing medical thesauri a...
Query auto-completion (QAC) is a common feature in modern search engines. High quality QAC candidates enhance search experience by saving users time that otherwise would be spent ...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...