One of the most important steps in web crawling is determining the starting points, or seed selection. This paper identifies and explores the problem of seed selection in webscal...
Web users are spending more of their time and creative energies within online social networking systems. While many of these networks allow users to export their personal data or ...
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
In this paper, we propose a new approach to automatically clustering e-commerce search engines (ESEs) on the Web such that ESEs in the same cluster sell similar products. This all...