In this paper we investigate how people use online rating information to inform decision making. We examine whether a theory of searching for information to discriminate between a...
The Web is a typical example of a social network. One of the most intriguing features of the Web is its self-organization behavior, which is usually faced through the existence of ...
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
The Web contains a vast amount of text that can only be queried using simple keywords-in, documentsout search queries. But Web text often contains structured elements, such as hot...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...