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APWEB
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
User-Oriented Adaptive Web Information Retrieval Based on Implicit Observations
Web search engines help users find useful information on the WWW. However, when the same query is submitted by different users, typical search engines return the same result regar...
Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshika...
WIDM
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Specialisation dynamics in federated web search
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
MIR
2004
ACM
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Autonomous visual model building based on image crawling through internet search engines
In this paper, we propose an autonomous learning scheme to automatically build visual semantic concept models from the output data of Internet search engines without any manual la...
Xiaodan Song, Ching-Yung Lin, Ming-Ting Sun
WINE
2005
Springer
143views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
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An Analysis of Search Engine Switching Behavior Using Click Streams
In this paper, we propose a simple framework to characterize the switching behavior between search engines based on click streams. We segment users into a number of categories bas...
Yun-Fang Juan, Chi-Chao Chang
WEBI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Metadata Propagation in the Web Using Co-Citations
Given the large heterogeneity of the World Wide Web, using metadata on the search engines side seems to be a useful track for information retrieval. Though, because a manual quali...
Camille Prime-Claverie, Michel Beigbeder, Thierry ...
ERCIMDL
2005
Springer
133views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2005»
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XMLibrary Search: An XML Search Engine Oriented to Digital Libraries
Abstract. The increase in the amount of data available in digital libraries calls for the development of search engines that allow the users to find quickly and effectively what ...
Enrique Sánchez Villamil, Carlos Gonz&aacut...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Person resolution in person search results: WebHawk
Finding information about people on the Web using a search engine is difficult because there is a many-to-many mapping between person names and specific persons (i.e. referents). ...
Xiaojun Wan, Jianfeng Gao, Mu Li, Binggong Ding
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Web Spam, Propaganda and Trust
Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. ...
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Joseph DeStefano
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Search engines and how students think they work
To investigate the nature of people’s understandings for how search engines work, we collected data from 232 undergraduate and graduate students. Students were asked to “draw ...
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, David G. Hendry
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Basic issues on the processing of web queries
Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...