The early success of link-based ranking algorithms was predicated on the assumption that links imply merit of the target pages. However, today many links exist for purposes other ...
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Combating Web spam has become one of the top challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art spam detection techniques are usually designed for specific known types of Web spa...
—We present an information retrieval model for combining evidence from concept-based semantics, term statistics, and context for improving search precision of genomics literature...
Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its topic? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Usually, web pages are classified using their content [7], but a U...