We describe a method to define and use subwebs, user-defined neighborhoods of the Internet. Subwebs help improve search performance by inducing a topic-specific page relevance ...
Raman Chandrasekar, Harr Chen, Simon Corston-Olive...
We consider blog feed search: identifying relevant blogs for a given topic. An individual’s search behavior often involves a combination of exploratory behavior triggered by sal...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
Patent search tasks are difficult and challenging, often requiring expert patent analysts to spend hours, even days, sourcing relevant information. To aid them in this process, an...
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly sophisticated with a rich set of on-board sensors and ubiquitous wireless connectivity. However, the ability to fully exploit the sensing c...
We discuss which are the main research themes in the field of search results clustering and report some recent results achieved by the Information Mining group at Fondazione Ugo B...
Claudio Carpineto, Andrea Bernardini, Massimiliano...