In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
Abstract—Search context is a crucial factor that helps to understand a user’s information need in ad-hoc Web page retrieval. A query log of a search engine contains rich inform...
In many text classification applications, it is appealing to take every document as a string of characters rather than a bag of words. Previous research studies in this area mostl...
With the advent of the Web, search has become the prominent paradigm for information seeking, not only across the online space but also within enterprises. Search engine functiona...
Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Piero Fraterna...
Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...