Web search is the dominant form of information access and everyday millions of searches are handled by mainstream search engines, but users still struggle to find what they are lo...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...
To browse the Web, blind people have to use screen readers, which process pages sequentially, making browsing timeconsuming. We present a prototype system, CSurf, which provides a...
Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, Dipanjan Das, I. V. ...
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...
We study the recurrence dynamics of queries in Web search by analysing a large real-world query log dataset. We find that query frequency is more useful in predicting collective ...
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...