Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
We present SmallWorlds, a visual interactive graph-based interface that allows users to specify, refine and build item-preference profiles in a variety of domains. The interface f...
Brynjar Gretarsson, John O'Donovan, Svetlin Bostan...
In mobile computing environments, handheld devices with low functionality restrict the services provided for mobile users. We propose a new concept of collaborative browsing, wher...
In this paper we present a new document representation model based on implicit user feedback obtained from search engine queries. The main objective of this model is to achieve be...
With the rapid growth of information stored in worldwide web servers, searching and capturing data on Internet become a common behavior for us. In order to increase the availabili...