Traditional routing indices in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are mainly designed for document retrieval applications and maintain aggregated one-dimensional values representing the ...
Abstract. Private keyword search is a technique that allows for searching and retrieving documents matching certain keywords without revealing the search criteria. We improve the s...
Dwell time on Web pages has been extensively used for various information retrieval tasks. However, some basic yet important questions have not been sufficiently addressed, e.g., ...
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...
—To date many activity spotting approaches are static: once the system is trained and deployed it does not change anymore. There are substantial shortcomings of this approach, sp...