Online communities have become popular for publishing and searching content, as well as for finding and connecting to other users. User-generated content includes, for example, pe...
Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebast...
Web Mining Systems exploit the redundancy of data published on the Web to automatically extract information from existing web documents. The first step in the Information Extract...
Kostyantyn M. Shchekotykhin, Dietmar Jannach, Gerh...
Finding out about a topic online can be time consuming. It involves visiting multiple news sites, encyclopedia entries, video repositories and other resources while discarding irr...
Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Bi...
—In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has l...
One of the most fundamental problems in web search is how to re-rank result web pages based on user logs. Most traditional models for re-ranking assume each query has a single int...