A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Algorithms for clustering web search results have to be efficient and robust. Furthermore they must be able to cluster a dataset without using any kind of a priori information, s...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Chris Cornelis...
Searching for a person name in a Web Search Engine usually leads to a number of web pages that refer to several people sharing the same name. In this paper we study whether it is ...
Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigó...
Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...