Historical prices are important information that can help consumers decide whether the time is right to buy a product. They provide both a context to the users, and facilitate the...
We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
This paper addresses how intellectual property affects the Web in general, and content publishing on the Web in particular. Before its commercialization, the Web was perceived as ...
Recent progress in information extraction technology has enabled a vast array of applications that rely on structured data that is embedded in natural-language text. In particular...
The Google search engine uses a method called PageRank, together with term-based and other ranking techniques, to order search results returned to the user. PageRank uses link ana...