PageRank computes the importance of each node in a directed graph under a random surfer model governed by a teleportation parameter. Commonly denoted alpha, this parameter models ...
David F. Gleich, Paul G. Constantine, Abraham D. F...
Many modern natural language-processing applications utilize search engines to locate large numbers of Web documents or to compute statistics over the Web corpus. Yet Web search e...
Internet search engines identify web pages that contain user-specified keywords, and then rank these pages according to their (heuristically assessed) relevance to the user’s qu...
Today’s Web browsers allow users to open links in new windows or tabs. This action, which we call ‘branching’, is sometimes performed on search results when the user plans t...
As the competition of Web search market increases, there is a high demand for personalized Web search to conduct retrieval incorporating Web users' information needs. This pa...