Whereas search engines assist users in locating initial information sources, often an overwhelmingly large number of ULRs is returned, and the task of browsing websites rests heavi...
Structured query language (SQL) is a classical way to access relational databases. Although SQL is powerful to query relational databases, it is rather hard for inexperienced user...
Guoliang Li, Ju Fan, Hao Wu, Jiannan Wang, Jianhua...
We consider the problem of clustering Web image search results. Generally, the image search results returned by an image search engine contain multiple topics. Organizing the resu...
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Zhiwei Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Ji-R...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
Search logs, which contain rich and up-to-date information about users' needs and preferences, have become a critical data source for search engines. Recently, more and more ...