Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
As the Web has evolved into a data-rich repository, with the standard “page view,” current search engines are becoming increasingly inadequate for a wide range of query tasks....
Web pages contain clutter (such as ads, unnecessary images and extraneous links) around the body of an article, which distracts a user from actual content. Extraction of "use...
Link analysis methods have been used successfully for knowledge discovery from the link structure of mutually linking entities. Existing link analysis methods have been inherently...
Social tags describe images from many aspects including the visual content observable from the images, the context and usage of images, user opinions and others. Not all tags are ...