An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
Studies show that roughly one-third of searches that are performed on the web require the user to initiate subsequent searches. Bates [1] theorized that with every search the user...
Abstract. We present an approach to increasing the effectiveness of rankedoutput retrieval systems that relies on graphical display and user manipulation of “views” of retrieva...
—In this paper we present a scalable and distributed system for image retrieval based on visual features and annotated text. This system is the core of the SAPIR project. Its arc...
The increasing amount of data on the Semantic Web offers opportunities for semantic search. However, formal query hinders the casual users in expressing their information need as t...
Haofen Wang, Kang Zhang, Qiaoling Liu, Thanh Tran,...