Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
Abstract. There is increasing interest in location-aware systems and applications. It is important for any designer of such systems and applications to understand the nature of use...
\Web users are nowadays confronted with the huge variety of available information sources whose content is not targeted at any specific group or layer. Recommendation systems aim...
—Top-k query has long been an important topic in many fields of computer science. Efficient implementation of the top-k queries is the key for information searching. With the n...
Hongbo Jiang, Jie Cheng, Dan Wang, Chonggang Wang,...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...