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WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Privacy-enhancing personalized web search
Personalized web search is a promising way to improve search quality by customizing search results for people with individual information goals. However, users are uncomfortable w...
Yabo Xu, Ke Wang, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen
SPIRE
1999
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
CoBWeb - A Crawler for the Brazilian Web
One of the key components of current Web search engines is the document collector. This paper describes CoBWeb, an automatic document collector, whose architecture is distributed ...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo...
DL
1998
Springer
110views Digital Library» more  DL 1998»
15 years 10 months ago
Failure Analysis in Query Construction: Data and Analysis from a Large Sample of Web Queries
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Tefko Saracevic
WEBDB
2007
Springer
162views Database» more  WEBDB 2007»
16 years 15 days ago
Term Ranking for Clustering Web Search Results
Clustering web search engine results for ambiguous keyword searches poses unique challenges. First, we show that one cannot readily import the frequency based feature ranking to c...
Fatih Gelgi, Hasan Davulcu, Srinivas Vadrevu
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Personalizing Web Search with Folksonomy-Based User and Document Profiles
Web search personalization aims to adapt search results to a user based on his tastes, interests and needs. The way in which such personal preferences are captured, modeled and exp...
David Vallet, Iván Cantador, Joemon M. Jose