Several types of queries are widely used on the World Wide Web and the expected retrieval
method can vary depending on the query type. We propose a method for classifying queries …

In general, most search engines display a certain number of search results on a search
results page at one time, separating the entire search results into multiple search results …

This paper describes an overview of the Navigational Retrieval Subtask 2 that was
conducted from 2004 to 2005 as a subtask of the WEB Task at the Fifth NTCIR Workshop. In …

NTCIR was the first large-scale IR evaluation conference series to construct test collections
with graded relevance assessments: the NTCIR-1 test collections from 1998 already …

Abstract In the Navigational Retrieval Subtask 2 (Navi-2) at the NTCIR-5 WEB Task, a
hypothetical user knows a specific item (eg, a product, company, and person) and requires …

This paper gives an overview of the WEB Task at the Fourth NTCIR Workshop ('NTCIR-4
WEB') conducted from 2003 to 2004. Through the NTCIR-4 WEB, we investigated the …

NTCIR was the first large-scale IR evaluation conference to construct test collections with
graded relevance assessments: the NTCIR-1 test collections from 1998 already featured …

An investigation into relationships among search methods, topic types, and styles of relevant
Web pages was conducted using the" NTCIR-4 WEB Test Collection for Navigational …

This disseration is devoted to investigate the method for building a high-quality homepage
collection from the web efficiently by considering the page group structures. We mainly …

This paper describes the design and characteristics of a test collection for navigational
retrieval of WWW data that was built through the WEB Task of the Fourth NTCIR Workshop to …