In this paper we describe a new release of a Web scale entity graph that serves as the
backbone of Microsoft Academic Service (MAS), a major production effort with a broadened …

Frequently a user's information needs are stored in the databases of multiple search
engines. It is inconvenient and inefficient for an ordinary user to invoke multiple search …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize
inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy …

The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a
new direction of integrating research in these two areas: the fields should turn off their …

The truly world-wide reach of the Web has brought with it a new realisation of the enormous
importance of usability and user interface design. In the last ten years, much has become …

We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a
major Internet search service. We provide data on:(i) sessions—changes in queries during a …

Morphology is the area of linguistics concerned with the internal structure of words.
Information Retrieval has generally not paid much attention to word structure, other than to …

In this paper we present an analysis of an AltaVista Search Engine query log consisting of
approximately 1 billion entries for search requests over a period of six weeks. This …

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web
queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search …