Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medi...
In this work we compare different techniques to automatically find candidate web pages to substitute broken links. We extract information from the anchor text, the content of the p...
Traditionally hypertexts have been limited in size by the manual effort required to create hypertext links. In addition, large hyper–linked collections may overwhelm users with ...
Generating query-biased summaries can take up a large part of the response time of interactive information retrieval (IIR) systems. This paper proposes to use document titles as a...