A better understanding of strategies and behavior of successful searchers is crucial for improving the experience of all searchers. However, research of search behavior has been s...
The importance of background knowledge for effective searching on the Web is not well understood. Participants were given trivia questions on two topics and asked to answer them f...
In this paper, we propose a method to search the Web for sentence substitutions for a given sentence query. Our method uses only lexico-syntactic patterns dynamically generated fro...
With web image search engines, we face a situation where the results are very noisy, and when we ask for a specific object, we are not ensured that this object is contained in all...
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...