Maintaining currency of search engine indices by exhaustive crawling is rapidly becoming impossible due to the increasing size and dynamic content of the web. Focused crawlers aim...
Michelangelo Diligenti, Frans Coetzee, Steve Lawre...
A Focused crawler must use information gleaned from previously crawled page sequences to estimate the relevance of a newly seen URL. Therefore, good performance depends on powerfu...
Hongyu Liu, Evangelos E. Milios, Jeannette Janssen
The exponential growth of documents available in the World Wide Web makes it increasingly difficult to discover relevant information on a specific topic. In this context, growing ...
Focused crawlers are programs that wander in the Web, using its graph structure, and gather pages that belong to a specific topic. The most critical task in Focused Crawling is the...
Ioannis Partalas, Georgios Paliouras, Ioannis P. V...
Subject-specific search facilities on health sites are usually built using manual inclusion and exclusion rules. These can be expensive to maintain and often provide incomplete c...
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kath...