Geo-ontologies have a key role to play in the development of the geospatial-semantic web, with regard to facilitating the search for geographical information and resources. They no...
Philip D. Smart, Alia I. Abdelmoty, Baher A. El-Ge...
This paper presents a hybrid concept hierarchy development technique for web returned documents retrieved by a meta-search engine. The aim of the technique is to separate the init...
Razvan Stefan Bot, Yi-fang Brook Wu, Xin Chen, Qua...
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
The World Wide Web is now providing hundreds of powerful search facilities, often for free, enabling people to access an enormous amount of information. The most successful search...