A voice search system requires a speech interface that can correctly recognize spoken queries uttered by users. The recognition performance strongly relies on a robust language mo...
Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig, Dan Bohus
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
We propose a method for search privacy on the Internet, focusing on enhancing plausible deniability against search engine query-logs. The method approximates the target search resu...
Avi Arampatzis, Pavlos Efraimidis, George Drosatos
—Search engine companies collect the “database of intentions”, the histories of their users’ search queries. These search logs are a gold mine for researchers. Search engin...
Syntactic analysis of search queries is important for a variety of information-retrieval tasks; however, the lack of annotated data makes training query analysis models difficult...
Kuzman Ganchev, Keith Hall, Ryan T. McDonald, Slav...