The User-over-Ranking hypothesis states that rather the user herself than a web search engine’s ranking algorithm can help to improve retrieval performance. The means are longer ...
We introduce a stricter Web community definition to overcome boundary ambiguity of a Web community defined by Flake, Lawrence and Giles [2], and consider the problem of finding co...
The celebrated PageRank algorithm has proved to be a very effective paradigm for ranking results of web search algorithms. In this paper we refine this basic paradigm to take into...
Users of Web search engines are often forced to sift through the long ordered list of document “snippets” returned by the engines. The IR community has explored document cluste...
One of the main strengths of the web is that it allows any party of its global community to share information with any other party. This goal has been achieved by making use of a u...