In order to increase retrieval precision, some new search engines provide manually verified answers to Frequently Asked Queries (FAQs). An underlying task is the identification of...
We present a novel approach to parse web search queries for the purpose of automatic tagging of the queries. We will define a set of probabilistic context-free rules, which genera...
Abstract. Recent advances in peer to peer (P2P) search algorithms have presented viable structured and unstructured approaches for full-text search. We posit that these existing ap...
Avi Rosenfeld, Claudia V. Goldman, Gal A. Kaminka,...
We present several methods for mining knowledge from the query logs of the MSN search engine. Using the query logs, we build a time series for each query word or phrase (e.g., `Th...
Michail Vlachos, Christopher Meek, Zografoula Vage...
An important factor for discriminating between webpages is their genre (e.g., blogs, personal homepages, e-shops, online newspapers, etc). Webpage genre identification has a great...