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
Most queries in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Identifying the major senses and facets of queries from search log data, referred to as query subtopic mining in this pa...
Yunhua Hu, Ya-nan Qian, Hang Li, Daxin Jiang, Jian...
In information-integration systems, sources may have diverse and limited query capabilities. In this paper we show that because sources have restrictions on retrieving their infor...
Type-ahead search is a new information-access paradigm, in which systems can find answers to keyword queries “onthe-fly” as a user types in a query. It improves traditional ...
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...