We report on a study of topic dynamics for pages visited by a sample of people using MSN Search. We examine the predictive accuracies of probabilistic models of topic transitions ...
Abstract. Software clustering techniques are useful for extracting architectural information about a system directly from its source code structure. This paper starts by examining ...
Personalization has been deemed one of the major challenges in information retrieval with a significant potential for providing better search experience to individual users. Espec...
Julia Luxenburger, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weiku...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
While small-scale search engines in specific domains and languages are increasingly used by Web users, most existing search engine development tools do not support the development...
Michael Chau, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Chunju Tseng,...