The availability of web search has revolutionised the way people discover information, yet as search services maintain larger and larger indexes they are in danger of becoming a v...
In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
Susan Elliott Sim, Charles L. A. Clarke, Richard C...
In this paper, we investigate a problem of predicting what images are likely to appear on the Web at a future time point, given a query word and a database of historical image str...
Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the W...
Search result diversification is a natural approach for tackling ambiguous queries. Nevertheless, not all queries are equally ambiguous, and hence different queries could bene...