Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
Web page clustering is a technology that puts semantically related web pages into groups and is useful for categorizing, organizing, and refining search results. When clustering ...
We propose an unsupervised method for detecting spam documents from Web page data, based on equivalence relations on strings. We propose 3 measures for quantifying the alienness (...
Understanding goals and preferences behind a user's online activities can greatly help information providers, such as search engine and E-Commerce web sites, to personalize c...
Honghua (Kathy) Dai, Lingzhi Zhao, Zaiqing Nie, Ji...
With the advent of the Web and the efforts towards a Semantic Web the nature of knowledge engineering has changed drastically. In this position paper we propose four principles fo...