In the objective of building intelligent searching systems for e-libraries or online bookstores, we have proposed a searching system model based on a Vietnamese language query processing component. Such document searching systems based on this model can allow users to use Vietnamese queries that represent content information as input, instead of entering keywords for searching in specific field...

The growing amount of online news posted on the WWW demands new algorithms that support topic detection, search, and navigation of news documents. This work presents an algorithm for topic detection that considers the temporal evolution of news and the structure of web documents. Then, it uses the results of the topic detection algorithm for searching and navigating in an online news source. An...

A common phenomenon in online discussion groups is the individualwho baits and provokes other groupmembers, oftenwith the result of drawing them into fruitless argument and diverting attention from the stated purposes of the group. This study documents a case in which the members of an online community—a feminist web-based discussion forum—are targeted by a “troll” attempting to disrupt their d...

also is significantly lower than that of metadata searching. Certain features of articles correlated with higher relevance ratings. A significant feature measured was the number of matches of the search term in the full-text of the article, with a larger number of matches having a statistically significant higher usefulness (i.e., relevance) rating. By using the number of hits of the search ter...

We present research on the development and evaluation of a collaborative search and shopping system for online retail tasks based on domain specific product requirements. We describe the design rationale for the system development and inclusion of collaborative features, including search, chat, clip-board, product suggestions, shared views, and shopping cart with a focus on how these features a...

Using the Web, consumers not only find product characteristics from manufacturers and sellers; they can also exchange opinions with other third parties. Learning about such “experience attributes” builds confidence in purchasing decisions and establishes trust between parties in transactions. However, little is known about the search process for these experience attributes. In the current study...

Online searching is a central element of internet users' information behaviors. Searching is usually executed in a user’s native language, but searching in English as a foreign language is often necessitated by the lack of content in languages that are underrepresented in Web content. This paper reports results from a study of searching in English as a foreign language and aims at understanding...

For our participation in TREC-10, we will focus on the searching distributed collections and also on designing and implementing a new search strategy to find homepages. Presented in the first part of this paper is a new merging strategy based on retrieved list lengths, and in the second part a development of our approach to creating retrieval models able to combine both Web page and URL address...

The paper presents the ongoing project Longdo Thai Online Dictionary Service. Longdo comprises of two parts: the word look up service part (or search part) and the dictionary contents building part. In the first part, users access Longdo via its web site or the software client to look up Thai meanings of foreign words (currently English, Japanese, and German are supported). The search database ...

In this research, we investigated whether a learning process has unique information searching characteristics. The results of this research show that information searching is a learning process with unique searching characteristics specific to particular learning levels. In a laboratory experiment, we studied the searching characteristics of 72 participants engaged in 426 searching tasks. We cl...