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...
WebCLEF is about supporting a user who is an expert in writing a survey article on a specific topic with a clear goal and audience by generating a ranked list with relevant snippet...
Arnold Overwijk, Dong Nguyen, Claudia Hauff, Dolf ...
Web service applications are dynamic, highly distributed, and loosely coupled orchestrations of services which are notoriously difficult to debug. In this paper, we describe a use...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...