We address the problem of answering broad-topic queries on the World Wide Web. We present a link based analysis algorithm SelHITS, which is an improvement over Kleinberg's HI...
Tags have recently become popular as a means of annotating and organizing Web pages and blog entries. Advocates of tagging argue that the use of tags produces a 'folksonomy...
Wrapping is the process of navigating a data source, semiautomatically extracting data and transforming it into a form suitable for data processing applications. There are current...
While several hierarchical classification methods have been applied to web content, such techniques invariably rely on a pre-defined taxonomy of documents. We propose a new techni...
Weblogs and message boards provide online forums for discussion that record the voice of the public. Woven into this mass of discussion is a wide range of opinion and commentary a...
Natalie S. Glance, Matthew Hurst, Kamal Nigam, Mat...