The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
Current keyword-oriented search engines for the World Wide Web do not allow specifying the semantics of queries. We address this limitation with NAGA1 , a new semantic search engi...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Maya Ramanath...
This report outlines our participation in CLEF-IP's 2009 prior art search task. In the task's initial year our focus lay on the automatic generation of effective queries...
In the sponsored search model, search engines are paid by businesses that are interested in displaying ads for their site alongside the search results. Businesses bid for keywords...
A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...