The rapid growth of the web has been noted and tracked extensively. Recent studies have however documented the dual phenomenon: web pages have small half lives, and thus the web e...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Andrei Z. Broder, Ravi Kumar, Andr...
As the competition of Web search market increases, there is a high demand for personalized Web search to conduct retrieval incorporating Web users' information needs. This pa...
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
Given the large heterogeneity of the World Wide Web, using metadata on the search engines side seems to be a useful track for information retrieval. Though, because a manual quali...
Camille Prime-Claverie, Michel Beigbeder, Thierry ...
The World Wide Web (WWW) has provided us with a plethora of information. However, given its unstructured format, this information is useful mainly to humans and cannot be effectiv...