Abstract. In order to increase precision in searching for web pages or web documents, taking the temporal dimension into account is gaining increased interest. A particular problem...
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
Precision-oriented search results such as those typically returned by the major search engines are vulnerable to issues of polysemy. When the same term refers to different things,...
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...