Assistance in retrieving of documents on the World Wide Web is provided either by search engines, through keyword based queries, or by catalogues, which organise documents into hi...
Access to on-line information via the Web is exploding. Index and retrieval engines already start to integrate a huge variety of heterogeneous repositories. However, the heterogen...
Boris Chidlovskii, Uwe M. Borghoff, Pierre-Yves Ch...
: The success of sponsored search has radically affected how people interact with the information, websites, and services on the web. Sponsored search provides the necessary revenu...
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
: This paper describes the progress of a research project aimed at improving the usability of web search tools for blind users who interact via screen readers and voice synthesizer...
Barbara Leporini, Patrizia Andronico, Marina Buzzi...