Web masters usually place certain web pages such as home pages and index pages in front of others. Under such a design, it is necessary to go through some pages to reach the desti...
Similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task in modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology, medical imaging, computer aid...
Stefan Brecheisen, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kr&oum...
In this paper, we propose to improve the effectiveness of biomedical information retrieval via a medical thesaurus. We analyzed the deficiencies of the existing medical thesauri a...
The presence of replicas or near-replicas of documents is very common on the Web. Documents may be replicated completely or partially for different reasons (versions, mirrors, etc...
Ernesto Di Iorio, Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Go...
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...