The number of vertical search engines and portals has rapidly increased over the last years, making the importance of a topic-driven (focused) crawler evident. In this paper, we de...
The large amount of available information on the Web makes it hard for users to locate resources about particular topics of interest. Traditional search tools, e.g., search engines...
Accessing up-to-date information in a fast and easy way implies the necessity of information management tools to explore and analyse the huge number of available electronic resourc...
Focused crawlers are programs that wander in the Web, using its graph structure, and gather pages that belong to a specific topic. The most critical task in Focused Crawling is the...
Ioannis Partalas, Georgios Paliouras, Ioannis P. V...
Word prediction performed by language models has an important role in many tasks as e.g. word sense disambiguation, speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, query spelling an...