Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
This paper considers the problem of identifying on the Web compound documents (cDocs) ? groups of web pages that in aggregate constitute semantically coherent information entities...
The rapid growth of the web has been noted and tracked extensively. Recent studies have however documented the dual phenomenon: web pages have small half lives, and thus the web e...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Andrei Z. Broder, Ravi Kumar, Andr...
There is a lack of an integrated technology that will increase effective usage of the vast and heterogeneous multi-lingual and multimedia digital content. The need is being express...
Social tagging is an increasingly popular phenomenon with substantial impact on the way we perceive and understand the Web. For the many Web resources that are not self-descriptive...