We investigate the criteria used by online searchers when assessing the relevance of web pages to information-seeking tasks. Twenty four searchers were given three tasks each, and...
Web Page segmentation is a crucial step for many applications in Information Retrieval, such as text classification, de-duplication and full-text search. In this paper we describe...
Sensemaking tasks require users to perform complex research behaviors to gather and comprehend information from many sources. Such tasks are common and include, for example, resea...
Nowadays web spamming has emerged to take the economic advantage of high search rankings and threatened the accuracy and fairness of those rankings. Understanding spamming techniq...
The aim of our research is to produce and assess short summaries to aid users' relevance judgements, for example for a search engine result page. In this paper we present our ...