Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
It is generally believed that propagated anchor text is very important for effective Web search as offered by the commercial search engines. “Google Bombs” are a notable illus...
Developing Web applications is usually accomplished in ad hoc manner. Such manner generally results in very poor quality products, with "spaghetti-like" structures makin...
Mohamed Sharaf Aun, I. M. Atiqul, Shoji Yuen, Kiyo...
Web information retrieval is best known for its use of the Web’s link structure as a source of evidence. Global link evidence is by nature query-independent, and is therefore no ...
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...