Studies show that roughly one-third of searches that are performed on the web require the user to initiate subsequent searches. Bates [1] theorized that with every search the user...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
The Web has been rapidly "deepened" by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query interfaces. As an essential task toward integrating these m...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
Typical web-database systems receive read-only queries, that generate dynamic web pages as a response, and writeonly updates, that keep information up-to-date. Users expect short ...