Current crawler-based search engines usually return a long list of search results containing a lot of noise documents. By indexing collected documents on topic path in taxonomy, t...
Investigating whether one can view Web searching as a learning process, we examined the searching characteristics of 41 participants engaged in 246 searching tasks. We classified ...
Bernard J. Jansen, Brian Keith Smith, Danielle L. ...
Many activities on the web are driven by high-level goals of users, such as “plan a trip” or “buy some product”. In this paper, we are interested in exploring the role and ...
Markus Strohmaier, Mathias Lux, Michael Granitzer,...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...