Many different ranking algorithms based on content and context have been used in web search engines to find pages based on a user query. Furthermore, to achieve better performance ...
JIRiSS (Information Retrieval based Software Search for Java) is a software exploration tool that uses an indexing engine based on an information retrieval method. JIRiSS is imple...
—Information about individuals on publicly available web sites stands as a valuable, yet unorganized, data source. Turning such an enormous data source into a “database” is h...
One of the key components of current Web search engines is the document collector. This paper describes CoBWeb, an automatic document collector, whose architecture is distributed ...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo...
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...