With the page explosion of WWW, how to cover more useful information with limited storage and computation resources becomes more and more important in web IR research. Using web p...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
We propose a new method to measure “visualness” of concepts, that is, what extent concepts have visual characteristics. To know which concept has visually discriminative power...
To access data sources on the Web, a crucial step is wrapping, which translates query responses, rendered in textual HTML, back into their relational form. Traditionally, this pro...
Shui-Lung Chuang, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, ChengXia...
In this paper we process and analyze web search engine query and click data from the perspective of the documents (URL’s) selected. We initially define possible document categor...