This paper presents a modified diary study that investigated how people performed personally motivated searches in their email, in their files, and on the Web. Although earlier st...
Jaime Teevan, Christine Alvarado, Mark S. Ackerman...
General purpose Web search engines are becoming ineffective due to the rapid growth and changes in the contents of the World Wide Web. Meta-search engines help a bit by having a b...
Leo Yuen, Matthew Chang, Ying Kit Lai, Chung Keung...
We propose three heuristics to determine the country of origin of a person or institution via text-based IE from the Web. We evaluate all methods on a collection of music artists ...
Markus Schedl, Klaus Seyerlehner, Dominik Schnitze...
Domain ontology has been used in many Semantic Web applications. However, few applications explore the use of ontology for personalized services. This paper proposes an ontology b...
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...