The Web is widely used, in educational settings, typically as a repository of contents to be learned. Within this approach, the Web-searching process tends to be perceived merely a...
We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
Ontologies have been proven invaluable tools both for the semantic web and for personal information management. In the context of a historical archive an ontology may provide mean...
Elena Torou, Akrivi Katifori, Costas Vassilakis, G...
This paper describes the strengths and weaknesses of two usability assessment methods frequently applied to web sites. It uses case histories of WWW usability studies conducted by...
The PageRank algorithm is used by search engines such as Google to order web pages. It uses an iterative numerical method to compute the maximal eigenvector of a transition matrix ...
Jeremy T. Bradley, Douglas V. de Jager, William J....