Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
Due to the tremendous increase rate and the high change frequency of Web documents, maintaining an up-to-date index for searching purposes (search engines) is becoming a challenge....
Odysseas Papapetrou, Stavros Papastavrou, George S...
An increasing number of applications operate on data obtained from the Web. These applications typically maintain local copies of the web data to avoid network latency in data acc...
Focused web crawlers have recently emerged as an alternative to the well-established web search engines. While the well-known focused crawlers retrieve relevant webpages, there ar...
Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Schuber...
Maintaining currency of search engine indices by exhaustive crawling is rapidly becoming impossible due to the increasing size and dynamic content of the web. Focused crawlers aim...
Michelangelo Diligenti, Frans Coetzee, Steve Lawre...