Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
While the Semantic Web is rapidly filling up, appropriate tools for searching it are still at infancy. In this paper we describe an approach that allows humans to access informatio...
This study examines the facets and patterns of multiple Web query reformulations with a focus on reformulation sequences. Based on IR interaction models, it was presumed that quer...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
Abstract. Conventional web search engines retrieve too many documents for the majority of the submitted queries; therefore, they possess a good recall, since there are far more pag...
M. Barouni-Ebrahimi, Ebrahim Bagheri, Ali A. Ghorb...