Personalization of web search results as a technique for improving user satisfaction has received notable attention in the research community over the past decade. Much of this wo...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Automatic categorization of user queries is an important component of general purpose (Web) search engines, particularly for triggering rich, query-specific content and sponsored ...
This paper presents a near real-time multilingual news monitoring and analysis system that forms the backbone of our research work. The system integrates technologies to address t...
The expanding and dynamic nature of the Web poses enormous challenges to most data mining techniques that try to extract patterns from Web data, such as Web usage and Web content....