Despite the availability of a variety of program analysis tools, evaluation of these tools is difficult, as only few benchmark suites exist. Existing benchmark suites lack the uni...
The standard method for combating spam, either in email or on the web, is to train a classifier on manually labeled instances. As the spammers change their tactics, the performanc...
Deepak Chinavle, Pranam Kolari, Tim Oates, Tim Fin...
Freshness has been increasingly realized by commercial search engines as an important criteria for measuring the quality of search results. However, most information retrieval met...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...