The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examin...
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Most human activities occur around where the user is physically located. Knowing the geographical serving area of web resources, therefore, is very important for many web applicat...
Qi Zhang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Lihua Yue, Wei-Ying ...