Collaboration on Web search is common in many domains, such as education and knowledge work; recently, HCI researchers have begun to introduce prototype collaborative search tools...
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
A large volume of geospatial data is available on the web through various forms of applications. However, access to these data is limited by certain types of queries due to restric...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Seon Ho Kim, Sada Na...
Search engines provide search results based on a large repository of pages downloaded by a web crawler from several servers. To provide best results, this repository must be kept ...
The performance of web search engines may often deteriorate due to the diversity and noisy information contained within web pages. User click-through data can be used to introduce...