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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Web search"”.
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Goal-oriented Web search
We have designed and implemented a Goal-oriented Web application to search videos, images, and news by querying YouTube, Truveo, Google and Yahoo search services. The Planner module decomposes functionality in Goals and Techniques. Goals declare searches for specific types of content and Techniques …
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Improving Web Search for Difficult Queries
Search engines have now become essential tools in all aspects of our life. Although a variety of information needs can be served very successfully, there are still a lot of queries that search engines can not answer very effectively and these queries always make users feel frustrated. Since it is …
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Deep-web search engine ranking algorithms
The deep web refers to content that is hidden behind HTML forms. The deep web contains a large collection of data that are unreachable by link-based search engines. A study conducted at University of California, Berkeley estimated that the deep web consists of around 91,000 terabytes of data, …
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Introducing Privacy in Current Web Search Engines
… important in frequently used services like search engines (e.g., Google, Bing, Yahoo!). These services allow users to retrieve relevant content on the Internet by exploiting their personal data. In this context, developing solutions to enable users to use these services in a …
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Exploring Strategies to Prevent Harm from Web Search
Web search, the process of seeking and finding information online, is an ubiquitous activity engrained in the lives of many individuals and much of broader society. This activity, which has brought many benefits to individuals and society, has also opened the door to many harms, such as echo …
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A client side tool for contextual Web search
… uses information relevant to the context of a web search for the purpose of improving the search results obtained using standard search engines. The representation of the contextual information is based on a Vector Space Model and is obtained from a set of documents that have been identified as …
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Improving Web Search Ranking Using the Internet Archive
Current web search engines retrieve relevant results only based on the latest content of web pages stored in their indices despite the fact that many web resources update frequently. We explore possible techniques and data sources for improving web search result ranking using web page historical …
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Using an ontology to improve the web search experience
The search terms that a user passes to a search engine are often ambiguous, referring to homonyms. The results in these cases are a mixture of links to documents that contain different meanings of the search terms. Current search engines provide suggested query completions in a dropdown list. …
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The predictor impact of Web Search and Social Media
In recent years, web search and social media have emerged online. Search engine technology has had to speed up to keep up with the growth of the World Wide Web, that has turned the Internet into a wide information space with different and badly managed content. Millions of people all over the world …
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Object search: supporting structured queries in web search engines
As the web evolves, increasing quantities of structured information is embedded in web pages in disparate formats. For example, a digital camera’s description may include its price and megapixels whereas a professor’s description may include her name, university, and research interests. Both types …
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Automating website profiling for a deep web search engine
The deep web consists of information on the internet that resides in databases or is dynamically generated. It is believed that the deep web represents a large percentage of the total contents on the web, but is currently not indexed by traditional search engines. The Morpheus project is designed …
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Combination of Multiple Web Search Results and Its Effect on the Search Performance
… are more likely to retrieve documents from more search engines; more than 15% of retrieved Web links are inactive for various reasons; on the average combining more evidence sources does improve Web IR performance. The study shows that the best result of improvement is achieved at the 2-way …
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Agent Trust Management Based on Human Plausible Reasoning and Rough Sets: Application to Agent-based Web search
… task, or achieving a specific goal. In this research, we first introduce ROSTAM, a new approach for Agent Trust Management (ATM) based on the theory of Rough Sets. ROSTAM is a generic ATM framework that can be applied to any kinds of multi agent systems. However, the features of the application …
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A Behavioural Data Approach Towards Predicting Direct Real Estate Markets in the United Kingdom
… include behavioural data such as user-generated search query data that capture market sentiment and reach beyond the grasp of established macroeconomic indicators. These applications had considerable success in predicting a wide range of economic phenomena with the assumption that internet …
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Efficient Web Searching for Open -Ended Questions: The Effects of Visualization and Data Mining Technology
… significantly improved the efficiency of Web searching processes. The visualized Web searching processes (a) enabled the students to avoid mistakenly submitting the same Web search queries and revisiting the same Web pages; (b) allowed them to reuse more Web searching contexts; and (c) …
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Intelligent personalized approaches for semantic search and query expansion
… for services and obtains them through different search engines. To obtain the best results that meet the needs and requirements of the users, researchers have extensively studied methods such as different personalization methods by which to improve the performance and efficiency of the retrieval …
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Network Requirements for Distributed Machine Learning Training in the Cloud
… of bursty and non-bursty cross traffic (such as web-search traffic and long-lived flows) on the iteration time and throughput of distributed training. By varying the cross traffic load, I measure the impact of network congestion on training iteration times. I observe that with heavy web-search …
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Leveraging Knowledge Bases in Web Text Processing
The Web contains more text than any other source in human history, and continues to expand rapidly. Computer algorithms to process and extract knowledge from Web text have the potential not only to improve Web search, but also to collect a sizable fraction of human knowledge and use it to enable …
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Supporting finding and re-finding through personalization
… one of the most common uses for the Internet to search for information, Web search tools often fail to connect people with what they are looking for. This is because search tools are designed to satisfy people in general, not the searcher in particular. Different individuals with different …
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