General image retrieval is often carried out by a text-based search engine, such as Google Image Search. In this case, natural language queries are used as input to the search eng...
The larger amount of information on the Web is stored in document databases and is not indexed by general-purpose search engines (i.e., Google and Yahoo). Such information is dyna...
Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne E. James, M...
Searching for medical information on the Web has become highly popular, but it remains a challenging task because searchers are often uncertain about their exact medical situation...
Research on buying behavior indicates that buying guides perform an important role in the overall buying process. However, while many buying guides can be found on the Web, findin...
The existing search engines sometimes give unsatisfactory search result for lack of any categorization. If there is some means to know the preference of user about the search resul...