We propose a method to evaluate queries using a last-resort semantic cache in a distributed Web search engine. The cache stores a group of frequent queries and for each of these qu...
Query suggestion is an effective approach to improve the usability of image search. Most existing search engines are able to automatically suggest a list of textual query terms b...
Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Tao Mei, Meng Wang, Ze...
Web search queries capture the information need of search engine users. Search engines store these queries in their logs and analyze them to guide their search results. In this wo...
Ioannis Antonellis, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jawed Ka...
A query speller is crucial to search engine in improving web search relevance. This paper describes novel methods for use of distributional similarity estimated from query logs in...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...