We present a novel language modeling approach to capturing the query reformulation behavior of Web search users. Based on a framework that categorizes eight different types of “...
Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...
On the Web, there is a pervasive use of XML to give lightweight semantics to textual collections. Such documentcentric XML collections require a query language that can gracefully...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...
The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
Online communities like Flickr, del.icio.us and YouTube have established themselves as very popular and powerful services for publishing and searching contents, but also for ident...
Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel, Tho...