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ACL
2009
13 years 10 months ago
The Impact of Query Refinement in the Web People Search Task
Searching for a person name in a Web Search Engine usually leads to a number of web pages that refer to several people sharing the same name. In this paper we study whether it is ...
Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigó...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 15 days ago
A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Jiafeng Guo, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Xueqi Cheng
ASWC
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Integrating Lightweight Reasoning into Class-Based Query Refinement for Object Search
More and more RDF data have been published online to be consumed. Ordinary Web users also expect to experience more intelligent services promised by the Semantic Web, such as objec...
Gong Cheng, Yuzhong Qu
ICDE
2000
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Efficient Query Refinement in Multimedia Databases
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Me...
EDBT
2009
ACM
145views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Interactive query refinement
We investigate the problem of refining SQL queries to satisfy cardinality constraints on the query result. This has applications to the many/few answers problems often faced by da...
Chaitanya Mishra, Nick Koudas
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Analyzing and evaluating query reformulation strategies in web search logs
Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...
Jeff Huang, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
EDBT
2002
ACM
128views Database» more  EDBT 2002»
15 years 22 days ago
An Approach to Integrating Query Refinement in SQL
With the emergence of applications that require content-based similarity retrieval, techniques to support such a retrieval paradigm over database systems have emerged as a critica...
Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Kaushik Chakrabarti, ...