The larger amount of information on the Web is stored in document databases and is not indexed by general-purpose search engines (i.e., Google and Yahoo). Such information is dyna...
Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne E. James, M...
We describe a parser for robust and flexible interpretation of user utterances in a multi-modal system for web search in newspaper databases. Users can speak or type, and they can...
Determining the similarity of short text snippets, such as search queries, works poorly with traditional document similarity measures (e.g., cosine), since there are often few, if...
Our work examines Web revisitation patterns. Everybody revisits Web pages, but their reasons for doing so can differ depending on the particular Web page, their topic of interest,...
Implicit feedback algorithms utilize interaction between searchers and search systems to learn more about users’ needs and interests than expressed in query statements alone. Th...