Building the semantic web encounters problems similar to building large bibliographic systems. The experience of librarianship in controlling large, heterogeneous collections of b...
All the specialists have agreed that the possibility of adding to multimedia WWW objects some sort of `conceptual' annotations describing their information content would grea...
Search engines are useful because they allow the user to nd information of interest from the World-Wide Web. These engines use a crawler to gather information from Web sites. Howev...
This paper presents Prospector, an adaptive meta-search layer, which performs personalized re-ordering of search results. Prospector combines elements from two approaches to adapti...
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...