Exploiting query repetition and regularity in an adaptive community-based Web search engine

User Modelling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 383-423

  Smyth, Barry ^a,b,c,d   Balfe, Evelyn ^a,b,e   Freyne, Jill ^a,b,e   Briggs, Peter ^a,b,f   Coyle, Maurice ^a,b,f   Boydell, Oisin ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Changing Worlds Ltd ^*  (Ireland)

^d Changing Worlds Ltd   (Ireland)

^e I SPY Research Group

^f I SPY Group

Author keywords

Meta search; Personalization; Social search; Web search

Indexed keywords

META SEARCH; PERSONALIZATION; SOCIAL SEARCH; USER PRIVACY; WEB SEARCH;

SEARCH ENGINES; SECURITY OF DATA; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 26644435091     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-004-5270-4     Document Type: Article

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