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VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Sketching with Conceptual Metaphors to Explain Computational Processes
To explore how people conceptualize a complex system, 232 university students were asked to sketch how a search engine works. While the sketches reveal a diverse range of visual a...
David G. Hendry
ISM
2006
IEEE
158views Multimedia» more  ISM 2006»
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ASEKS: A P2P Audio Search Engine Based on Keyword Spotting
Currently, most search engines are text-based and their structures are centralized. These kinds of engine are sufficient for searching text information in Internet. However, while...
Ruizhi Ye, Yingchun Yang, Zhenyu Shan, Yiyan Liu, ...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
123views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
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An Economic Model for Comparing Search Services
Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. This research develops an economic model for comparing search...
Stephen K. Kwan, Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan
ACSC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Shallow NLP techniques for internet search
Information Retrieval (IR) is a major component in many of our daily activities, with perhaps its most prominent role manifested in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines...
Alex Penev, Raymond K. Wong
WEBI
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Concordance-Based Entity-Oriented Search
— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...
Mikhail Bautin, Steven Skiena
WEBI
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Determining Bias to Search Engines from Robots.txt
Search engines largely rely on robots (i.e., crawlers or spiders) to collect information from the Web. Such crawling activities can be regulated from the server side by deploying ...
Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee...
WEBDB
2007
Springer
126views Database» more  WEBDB 2007»
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Towards a Content-Provider-Friendly Web Page Crawler
Search engine quality is impacted by two factors: the quality of the ranking/matching algorithm used and the freshness of the search engine’s index, which maintains a “snapsho...
Jie Xu, Qinglan Li, Huiming Qu, Alexandros Labrini...
WEBDB
2007
Springer
159views Database» more  WEBDB 2007»
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A clustering-based sampling approach for refreshing search engine's database
Due to resource constraints, search engines usually have difficulties keeping the local database completely synchronized with the Web. To detect as many changes as possible, the ...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Web Search Personalization Via Social Bookmarking and Tagging
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach to web search personalization based on user collaboration and sharing of information about web documents. The proposed personaliz...
Michael G. Noll, Christoph Meinel
ICWE
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Integrating Databases, Search Engines and Web Applications: A Model-Driven Approach
This paper addresses conceptual modeling and automatic code generation for search engine integration with data intensive Web applications. We have analyzed the similarities (and di...
Alessandro Bozzon, Tereza Iofciu, Wolfgang Nejdl, ...