Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...
To improve the search results for socially-connect users, we propose a ranking framework, Social Network Document Rank (SNDocRank). This framework considers both document contents...
Liang Gou, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Jung-Hyun Kim, Xiaolon...
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
Abstract. This paper describes a path-based method to use the multi-step navigation information discovered from website structures for web page ranking. Use of hyperlinks to enhanc...