Recently, profile context-sensitive HMMs (profile-csHMMs) have been proposed which are very effective in modeling the common patterns and motifs in related symbol sequences. Pro...
The PC Desktop is a very rich repository of personal information, efficiently capturing user's interests. In this paper we propose a new approach towards an automatic persona...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang...
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
: This paper presents the MINERVA project that protoypes a distributed search engine based on P2P techniques. MINERVA is layered on top of a Chord-style overlay network and uses a ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard Weikum,...
The Internet has become an extremely popular source of entertainment and information. But, despite the growing amount of media content, most Web sites today are designed for acces...
Alan Messer, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Phuong Nguy...