Vertical search engines and web portals are gaining ground over the general-purpose engines due to their limited size and their high precision for the domain they cover. The number...
George Almpanidis, Constantine Kotropoulos, Ioanni...
The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast number of documents in today's large databases and especially on World Wide Web ca...
Through online self-booking travel sites on the Web, consumers are offered great opportunities for convenient and inexpensive travel bookings. Nevertheless, they face certain prob...
Dynamic web applications such as mashups need efficient access to web data that is only accessible via entity search engines (e.g. product or publication search engines). However,...
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...