Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...
PageRank is known to be an efficient metric for computing general document importance in the Web. While commonly used as a one-size-fits-all measure, the ability to produce topica...
Focused Web browsing activities such as periodically looking up headline news, weather reports, etc., which require only selective fragments of particular Web pages, can be made m...
Abstract. Latent Semantic Indexing(LSI) has been proved to be effective to capture the semantic structure of document collections. It is widely used in content-based text retrieval...
This paper describes the results of an observational study into the methods people use to manage web information for re-use. People observed in our study used a diversity of metho...