Log data constitute a relevant aspect in the evaluation process of the quality of a search engine and the quality of a multilingual search service; log data can be used to study t...
Thomas Mandl, Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di ...
Web search engines have become the primary method of accessing information on the web. Billions of queries are submitted to major web search engines, reflecting a wide range of in...
The exponential growth of the Internet (WWW in particular) has opened-up several avenues for covert channel communication. Steganographic communication is one such avenue. Hiding ...
Ashish Patel, M. Shah, Rajarathnam Chandramouli, K...
One of the main problems in online advertising is to display ads which are relevant and appropriate w.r.t. what the user is looking for. Often search engines fail to reach this go...
Roberto Mirizzi, Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, ...
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...