Abstract. When you search for information regarding a particular person on the web, a search engine returns many pages. Some of these pages may be for people with the same name. Ho...
This paper gives an overview of the evaluation method used for the Web Retrieval Task in the Third NTCIR Workshop, which is currently in progress. In the Web Retrieval Task, we tr...
Koji Eguchi, Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, Kazuko Kuriy...
Previous work on domain specific search services in the area of depressive illness has documented the significant human cost required to setup and maintain closed-crawl parameters....
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Rame...
The deep web contains an order of magnitude more information than the surface web, but that information is hidden behind the web forms of a large number of web sites. Metasearch e...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Jeffrey Nicho...
Information needs are rarely satisfied directly on search engine result pages. Searchers usually need to click through to search results (landing pages) and follow search trails b...