Web pages, like people, are often known by others in a variety of contexts. When those contexts are sufficiently distinct, a page's importance may be better represented by mu...
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
Abstract. Information retrieval from web and XML document collections is ever more focused on returning entities instead of web pages or XML elements. There are many research field...
Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. T...
Despite the effectiveness of search engines, the persistently increasing amount of web data continuously obscures the search task. Efforts have thus concentrated on personalized...
Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...