Abstract. One of the key factors for effective personalization of information access is the user context. We propose a framework which integrates several critical elements that mak...
Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
Informationretrieval systems typically weight the importance of search terms according to document and collection statistics (such as by using tf idf scores, where less commonterm...
Search engines today present results that are often oblivious to recent shifts in intent. For example, the meaning of the query `independence day' shifts in early July to a U...
Given a user keyword query, current Web search engines return a list of individual Web pages ranked by their "goodness" with respect to the query. Thus, the basic unit fo...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li