In this paper we investigate temporal patterns of web search queries. We carry out several evaluations to analyze the properties of temporal profiles of queries, revealing promisi...
Enrique Alfonseca, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Keith H...
Hundreds of millions of users each day submit queries to the Web search engine. The user queries are typically very short which makes query understanding a challenging problem. In...
The number of web pages available on Internet increases day after day, and consequently finding relevant information becomes more and more a hard task. However, when we consider ...
Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgi...
Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving tow...
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...