Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...
General image retrieval is often carried out by a text-based search engine, such as Google Image Search. In this case, natural language queries are used as input to the search eng...
According to a recent survey made by Nielsen NetRatings, searching on news articles is one of the most important activity online. Indeed, Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others have p...
Gianna M. Del Corso, Antonio Gulli, Francesco Roma...
We consider the task of suggesting related queries to users after they issue their initial query to a web search engine. We propose a machine learning approach to learn the probab...
A website can regulate search engine crawler access to its content using the robots exclusion protocol, specified in its robots.txt file. The rules in the protocol enable the site...