Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
Web search engines work well for finding crawlable pages, but not for finding datasets hidden behind Web search forms. We describe a novel technique for detecting search forms, ...
Current Web search engines generally impose link analysis-based re-ranking on web-page retrieval. However, the same techniques, when applied directly to small web search such as i...
Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
: The performance of single-camera SLAM is improved when wide-angle optics provide a field of view greater than the 40 to 50 degrees lenses normally used in computer vision. The is...
While web search tasks are often inherently collaborative in nature, many search engines do not explicitly support collaboration during search. In this paper, we describe HeyStaks...
Kevin KcNally, Michael P. O'Mahony, Barry Smyth, M...
Organizing Web search results into clusters facilitates users' quick browsing through search results. Traditional clustering techniques are inadequate since they don't g...
It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...
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, ...