Topics in the field of Web Information Retrieval (IR) and web search are slowly being introduced at the undergraduate level. In this paper, we show how the curriculum for a new u...
The World Wide Web is a vast source of information accessible to computers, but understandable only to humans. The goal of the research described here is to automatically create a...
Mark Craven, Dan DiPasquo, Dayne Freitag, Andrew M...
Vannevar Bush proposed the memex as a means to support building knowledge in the way he says the human brain works: by association. Achieving this vision has been a core motivatio...
Monica M. C. Schraefel, Daniel A. Smith, Alisdair ...
In this paper we analyze the Web coverage of three search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. We conducted a 15 month study collecting 15,770 Web content or information pages linked f...
Yang Sok Kim, Byeong Ho Kang, Paul Compton, Hirosh...
From a user's perspective, hypertext links on the web form a directed graph between distinct information sources. We investigate the effects of discovering "backlinks&qu...
Soumen Chakrabarti, David Gibson, Kevin S. McCurle...