Entity information management (EIM) is a nascent IR research area that investigates the information management process about entities instead of documents. It is motivated by the ...
We investigate the automatic generation of topic pages as an alternative to the current Web search paradigm. We describe a general framework, which combines query log analysis to ...
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
The computation of page importance in a huge dynamic graph has recently attracted a lot of attention because of the web. Page importance, or page rank is defined as the fixpoint o...
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...