We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Search engine quality is impacted by two factors: the quality of the ranking/matching algorithm used and the freshness of the search engine’s index, which maintains a “snapsho...
Jie Xu, Qinglan Li, Huiming Qu, Alexandros Labrini...
Groups of users often have shared information needs – for example, business colleagues need to conduct research relating to joint projects and students must work together on gro...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jarrod Lombardo, Daniel Wi...
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
In recent years, numerous visual Web search interfaces have been developed in the research community. However, the user evaluations of these interfaces have been performed using a...