People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
In this paper we investigate temporal patterns of web search queries. We carry out several evaluations to analyze the properties of temporal profiles of queries, revealing promisi...
Enrique Alfonseca, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Keith H...
: Although search engines are often used for information retrieval (IR) from the World Wide Web (WWW), current search engine technology seems obsolete. The quality of query results...
We designed, implemented and evaluated a new concept for direct manipulation of databases, called dynamic queries, that allowsuserstoformulatequerieswithgraphicalwidgets,such as s...
Christopher Ahlberg, Christopher Williamson, Ben S...
This paper analyzes the results of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track, focusing on a variety of topics. First, we examine in detail the relevance judgments. Second, we study the resulting ...