Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...
Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectiv...
Search engines have become efficient assistants for people to access information on the Web. Some researchers argue that the prevalence of search engines is setting a tough journ...
Abstract—Extensive work has been devoted to private information retrieval and privacy preserving data mining. To protect user privacy from search engines, however, most current a...
Shaozhi Ye, Shyhtsun Felix Wu, Raju Pandey, Hao Ch...
This paper addresses Named Entity Mining (NEM), in which we mine knowledge about named entities such as movies, games, and books from a huge amount of data. NEM is potentially use...