Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result...
Personalized web search is a promising way to improve search quality by customizing search results for people with individual information goals. However, users are uncomfortable w...
Archival principles as Provenance (keeping material from the same creator together) and its corollary Original Order (keeping the order of creation intact) could help improve acces...
On the Web of Data, entities are often interconnected in a way similar to web documents. Previous works have shown how PageRank can be adapted to achieve entity ranking. In this pa...
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...