Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
To exploit the similarity information hidden in the hyperlink structure of the web, this paper introduces algorithms scalable to graphs with billions of vertices on a distributed ...
When searching large hypertext document collections, it is often possible that there are too many results available for ambiguous queries. Query refinement is an interactive proce...
Image search is becoming prevalent in web search as the number of digital photos grows exponentially on the internet. For a successful image search system, removing outliers in th...
We propose a General Markov Framework for computing page importance. Under the framework, a Markov Skeleton Process is used to model the random walk conducted by the web surfer on...
Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhiming Ma, Taifeng Wang, Ha...