With the growing popularity of information retrieval (IR) in distributed systems and in particular P2P Web search, a huge number of protocols and prototypes have been introduced i...
Thomas Neumann, Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel,...
In this paper, we investigate the difference between Wikipedia and Web link structure with respect to their value as indicators of the relevance of a page for a given topic of re...
Whole page relevance defines how well the surface-level representation of all elements on a search result page and the corresponding holistic attributes of the presentation respon...
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White, Liwei ...
The annotation of web sites in social bookmarking systems has become a popular way to manage and find information on the web. The community structure of such systems attracts spam...
Beate Krause, Christoph Schmitz, Andreas Hotho, Ge...
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...