Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...
This paper presents a semantic associative browsing system called Semantic Association Various Viewpoint sYstem (SAVVY). Recently, the number of users who employ search engines fo...
Takafumi Nakanishi, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, ...
—In spite of numerous search engines available on the web, no single engine is capable of performing “better” under all circumstances. This being the case, metasearch engines...
Our focus this year was to investigate methods for increasing query length in interactive information searching in the Web context, and to see if these methods led to changes in t...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, J. Jeng, Amymari...
Individuals often use search engines to return to web pages they have previously visited. This behaviour, called refinding, accounts for about 38% of all queries. While researcher...