Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
Wrapping is the process of navigating a data source, semiautomatically extracting data and transforming it into a form suitable for data processing applications. There are current...
Online communities (OLCs) are gatherings of like -minded people, brought together in cyberspace by shared interests. Creating such communities is not a big challenge; sustaining m...
Nishikant Kapoor, Joseph A. Konstan, Loren G. Terv...
The AncestorRank algorithm calculates an authority score by using just one characteristic of the web graph—the number of ancestors per node. For scalability, we estimate the num...
We describe a method to retrieve images found on web pages with specified object class labels, using an analysis of text around the image and of image appearance. Our method dete...