Crawl selection policy has a direct influence on Web search effectiveness, because a useful page that is not selected for crawling will also be absent from search results. Yet th...
Web spider is a widely used approach to obtain information for search engines. As the size of the Web grows, it becomes a natural choice to parallelize the spider’s crawling proc...
Pictures have become increasingly common and popular in mobile communications. However, due to the limitation of mobile devices, there is a need to develop new technologies to fac...
While searching the web, the user is often confronted by a great number of results, generally displayed in a list which is sorted according to the relevance of the results. Facing...
Nicolas Bonnel, Vincent Lemaire, Alexandre Cotarma...
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...