One of the key components of current Web search engines is the document collector. This paper describes CoBWeb, an automatic document collector, whose architecture is distributed ...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo...
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Morphological query expansion and language-filtering words have proved to be valid methods when searching the web for content in Basque via APIs of commercial search engines, as t...
Igor Leturia, Antton Gurrutxaga, Nerea Areta, Eli ...
Generic web search is designed to serve all users, independent of the individual needs and without any adaptation to personal requirements. We propose a novel technique1 that perf...
John D. Garofalakis, Theofanis Matsoukas, Yannis P...
With web image search engines, we face a situation where the results are very noisy, and when we ask for a specific object, we are not ensured that this object is contained in all...