This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Background: The analysis of biological data is greatly enhanced by existing or emerging databases. Most existing databases, with few exceptions are not designed to easily support ...
S. A. Kirov, X. Peng, E. Baker, D. Schmoyer, B. Zh...
While much research has been performed on query logs collected for major Web search engines, query log analysis to enhance search on smaller and more focused collections has attrac...
Stephen Dignum, Udo Kruschwitz, Maria Fasli, Yunhy...
The use of blogs to track and comment on real world (political, news, entertainment) events is growing. Similarly, as more individuals start relying on the Web as their primary in...
Abstract. The PageRank algorithm is used today within web information retrieval to provide a content-neutral ranking metric over web pages. It employs power method iterations to so...