This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of sing...
Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart ...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
In this paper, we propose to mine query hierarchies from clickthrough data, which is within the larger area of automatic acquisition of knowledge from the Web. When a user submits...
Dou Shen, Min Qin, Weizhu Chen, Qiang Yang, Zheng ...
Nowadays, searches for the web pages of a person with a given name constitute a notable fraction of queries to Web search engines. Such a query would normally return web pages rela...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Zhaoqi Chen, Sharad Mehrotr...
Generating alternative queries, also known as query suggestion, has long been proved useful to help a user explore and express his information need. In many scenarios, such sugges...