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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Using the current browsing context to improve search relevance
In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the relevance of a Web search engine by adapting it to the dynamic needs of the user. We examine a representative case of su...
Mandar Rahurkar, Silviu Cucerzan
CNSR
2007
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
The Application of Users' Collective Experience for Crafting Suitable Search Engine Query Recommendations
Search engines have turned into one of the most important services of the Web that are frequently visited by any user. They assist their users in finding appropriate information. ...
Faezeh Ensan, Ebrahim Bagheri, Mohsen Kahani
WAIM
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Link Based Clustering of Web Search Results
Abstract. With information proliferation on the Web, how to obtain highquality information from the Web has been one of hot research topics in many fields like Database, IR as well...
Yitong Wang, Masaru Kitsuregawa
VLDB
2005
ACM
140views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search
This paper proposes the live demonstration of a prototype of MINERVA1 , a novel P2P Web search engine. The search engine is layered on top of a DHT-based overlay network that conn...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...
DBISP2P
2005
Springer
183views Database» more  DBISP2P 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Database Selection and Result Merging in P2P Web Search
Intelligent Web search engines are extremely popular now. Currently, only commercial centralized search engines like Google can process terabytes of Web data. Alternative search en...
Sergey Chernov, Pavel Serdyukov, Matthias Bender, ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Surrogate scoring for improved metasearch precision
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
ICDM
2008
IEEE
235views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
DECK: Detecting Events from Web Click-Through Data
In the past few years there has been increased research interest in detecting previously unidentified events from Web resources. Our focus in this paper is to detect events from ...
Ling Chen 0002, Yiqun Hu, Wolfgang Nejdl
SPIRE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Last-Resort Semantic Cache for Web Queries
We propose a method to evaluate queries using a last-resort semantic cache in a distributed Web search engine. The cache stores a group of frequent queries and for each of these qu...
Flavio Ferrarotti, Mauricio Marín, Marcelo ...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Characterizing and predicting search engine switching behavior
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the feasibility of multi-site web search engines
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...