As XML information proliferates on the Web, searching XML information via a search engine is crucial to the experience of both casual and experienced Web users. The returned XML fr...
Re-ranking the search results using PageRank is a well-known technique used in modern search engines. Running an iterative algorithm like PageRank on a large web graph consumes bo...
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
Caching is a proven means to improve scalability and availability of software systems as well as to reduce latency of user requests. In contrast to Web caching where single Web ob...
Automatic web page segmentation is the basis to adaptive web browsing on mobile devices. It breaks a large page into smaller blocks, in which contents with coherent semantics are ...