The existence of on-line social networks that include person specific information creates interesting opportunities for various applications ranging from marketing to community o...
Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Raymond Heatherl...
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...
Understanding query intent is essential to generating appropriate rankings for users. Existing methods have provided customized rankings to answer queries with different intent. W...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...