Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
In this work we propose a method that retrieves a list of related queries given an initial input query. The related queries are based on the query log of previously issued queries...
Information retrieval is generally considered an individual activity, and information retrieval research and tools reflect this view. As digitally mediated communication and infor...
Steven E. Poltrock, Jonathan Grudin, Susan T. Duma...
The traditional crawlers used by search engines to build their collection of Web pages frequently gather unmodified pages that already exist in their collection. This creates unne...
We have developed an interactive video search system that allows the searcher to rapidly assess query results and easily pivot off those results to form new queries. The system i...