The present study demonstrates how the emotional content of search terms and their eventual results affects the breadth of a users' search for information. We observed the qu...
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
Abstract. We present a first system to semi-automatically create a visual representation for a given, short text. We first parse the input text, decompose it into suitable units,...
Katharina Schwarz, Pavel Rojtberg, Joachim Caspar,...
We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries durin...
This paper investigates spoken term detection (STD) from audio recordings of course lectures obtained from an existing media repository. STD is performed from word lattices genera...
Richard Rose, Atta Norouzian, Aarthi Reddy, Andr&e...
In a geographical route search, given search terms, the goal is to find an effective route that (1) starts at a given location, (2) ends at a given location, and (3) travels via...
Informationretrieval systems typically weight the importance of search terms according to document and collection statistics (such as by using tf idf scores, where less commonterm...
The impact of using phrases as content representation for documents and for queries has generally been accepted as a desirable feature in information retrieval systems because phr...
Web search engines face an extremely heterogeneous user population from web novices to highly skilled experts. Currently, the search strategies of the experienced web searchers ar...
Fishnet is a web browser that always displays web pages in their entirety, independent of their size. Fishnet accomplishes this by using a fisheye view, i.e. by showing a focus re...