Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...
Web searching is a significant activity for many people seeking multimedia information. Major Web search engines, such as Alta Vista, are essential tools in the quest to locate re...
Most works related to unithood were conducted as part of a larger effort for the determination of termhood. Consequently, the number of independent research that study the notion ...
WebPMI is a popular web-based association measure to evaluate the semantic similarity between two queries (i.e. words or entities) by leveraging search results returned by search ...
In this paper, we target on the problem of personal name disambiguation in search results returned by personal name queries. Usually, a personal name refers to several people. The...