Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Bruno P&ocir...
For a given query raised by a specific user, the Query Suggestion technique aims to recommend relevant queries which potentially suit the information needs of that user. Due to th...
The experience of a trusted group of colleagues can help users improve the quality and focus of their browsing and searching activities. How could a system provide such help, when...
An important factor for discriminating between webpages is their genre (e.g., blogs, personal homepages, e-shops, online newspapers, etc). Webpage genre identification has a great...
Assistance in retrieving of documents on the World Wide Web is provided either by search engines, through keyword based queries, or by catalogues, which organise documents into hi...