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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Understanding web search via a learning paradigm
Investigating whether one can view Web searching as a learning process, we examined the searching characteristics of 41 participants engaged in 246 searching tasks. We classified ...
Bernard J. Jansen, Brian Keith Smith, Danielle L. ...
AI
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
SWAMI: Searching the Web Using Agents with Mobility and Intelligence
The rapid growth of the World Wide Web has complicated the process of web browsing by providing an overwhelming wealth of choices for the end user. To alleviate this burden, intell...
Mark Kilfoil, Ali A. Ghorbani
ADC
2003
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Utilizing Hyperlink Transitivity to Improve Web Page Clustering
The rapid increase of web complexity and size makes web searched results far from satisfaction in many cases due to a huge amount of information returned by search engines. How to...
Jingyu Hou, Yanchun Zhang
ITCC
2002
IEEE
14 years 26 days ago
Taxonomy-based Adaptive Web Search Method
Current crawler-based search engines usually return a long list of search results containing a lot of noise documents. By indexing collected documents on topic path in taxonomy, t...
Said Mirza Pahlevi, Hiroyuki Kitagawa
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
To index or not to index: time-space trade-offs in search engines with positional ranking functions
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Diego Arroyuelo, Senén González, Mau...