Query segmentation is essential to query processing. It aims to tokenize query words into several semantic segments and help the search engine to improve the precision of retrieva...
Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang, Tat-Se...
Argues that metrics can be generated from search transactional Web logs that can help evaluate search engine effectiveness. Search logs from the BBC Website were analysed and metr...
Paul Huntington, David Nicholas, Hamid R. Jamali M...
Query auto-completion (QAC) is a common feature in modern search engines. High quality QAC candidates enhance search experience by saving users time that otherwise would be spent ...
Researchers of commercial search engines often collect data using the application programming interface (API) or by "scraping" results from the web user interface (WUI),...
The interfaces used by the top Web search engines have changed very little since the early days of Web search. These interfaces follow the traditional model of information retriev...