A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...
Extracting useful knowledge from large network datasets has become a fundamental challenge in many domains, from scientific literature to social networks and the web. We introduc...
Duen Horng Chau, Aniket Kittur, Jason I. Hong, Chr...
We all spend time every day looking for information in our email, yet we know little about this refinding process. Some users expend considerable preparatory effort creating compl...
Steve Whittaker, Tara Matthews, Julian A. Cerruti,...
Web search logs contain extremely sensitive data, as evidenced by the recent AOL incident. However, storing and analyzing search logs can be very useful for many purposes (i.e. in...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...