Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...
We review a query log of hundreds of millions of queries that constitute the total query traffic for an entire week of a generalpurpose commercial web search service. Previously, ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
Abstract. We consider query execution strategies for object-oriented distributed databases. There are several scenarios of query decomposition, assuming that the corresponding quer...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to expand queries by exploring both location information and topic information of the queries. Users at different locations tend to have...
Shu Huang, Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee G...
In this paper, we show that most multiple term queries include more than one topic and users usually reformulate their queries by topics instead of terms. In order to provide empi...
Xuefeng He, Jun Yan, Jinwen Ma, Ning Liu, Zheng Ch...