A meta-search engine propagates user queries to its participant search engines following a server selection strategy. To facilitate server selection, the metasearch engine must ke...
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
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...
Current keyword-oriented search engines for the World Wide Web do not allow specifying the semantics of queries. We address this limitation with NAGA1 , a new semantic search engi...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Maya Ramanath...
In this paper, we study a new problem of mining causal relation of queries in search engine query logs. Causal relation between two queries means event on one query is the causati...
Yizhou Sun, Kunqing Xie, Ning Liu, Shuicheng Yan, ...