Abstract. Improving the performance of the Web is a crucial requirement, since its popularity resulted in a large increase in the user perceived latency. In this paper, we describe...
Tasks recognizing named entities such as products, people names, or locations from documents have recently received significant attention in the literature. Many solutions to thes...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Web search personalization aims to adapt search results to a user based on his tastes, interests and needs. The way in which such personal preferences are captured, modeled and exp...
In the framework of Knowledge Management, the Internet can be a valuable source of information to produce new Knowledge. Here, an ontologybased web search system to ease the enterp...