Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
— To address the rapid growth of the Internet, modern Web search engines have to adopt distributed organizations, where the collection of indexed documents is partitioned among s...
Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri, Raffaele Perego,...
This study examines the facets and patterns of multiple Web query reformulations with a focus on reformulation sequences. Based on IR interaction models, it was presumed that quer...
Large-scale information processing environments must rapidly search through massive streams of raw data to locate useful information. These data streams contain textual and numeri...
Ian Gorton, Justin Almquist, Nick Cramer, Jereme H...
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...