Support for temporal text-containment queries (query for all versions of documents that contained one or more particular words at a particular time t) is of interest in a number of...
We present a user-centred, task-oriented, comparative evaluation of two query-based document skimming tools. ProfileSkim bases within-document retrieval on computing a relevance pr...
We propose an unsupervised method for detecting spam documents from Web page data, based on equivalence relations on strings. We propose 3 measures for quantifying the alienness (...
The POIROT project is a four-year effort to develop an architecture that integrates the products of a number of targeted reasoning and learning components to produce executable re...
Mark H. Burstein, Fusun Yaman, Robert Laddaga, Rob...
Due to the rapid growth in the size of the web, web search engines are facing enormous performance challenges. The larger engines in particular have to be able to process tens of ...