The success of Web search is often limited by a variety of factors. Typical queries are vague and imprecise. At the same time, the Web is a dynamic and unmoderated collection and ...
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...
Most product search engines today build on models of relevance devised for information retrieval. However, the decision mechanism that underlies the process of buying a product is...
Human computation is an effective way to channel human effort spent playing games to solving computational problems that are easy for humans but difficult for computers to autom...
Ali Dasdan, Chris Drome, Santanu Kolay, Micah Alpe...
We propose a framework for searching the Wikipedia with contextual information. Our framework extends the typical keyword search, by considering queries of the type q, p , where q...
Antti Ukkonen, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Ari...