This paper identifies and explores the problem of seed selection in a web-scale crawler. We argue that seed selection is not a trivial but very important problem. Selecting proper...
Blogging, as a subset of the web as a whole, can benefit greatly from the addition of semantic metadata. The result -- which we will call Semantic Blogging -- provides improved cap...
Online forums contain valuable human-generated information. End-users looking for information would like to find only those threads in forums where relevant information is present...
We describe an approach to personalization that emphasizes the "client side." We posit the need for a highly individualistic user context that resides on the client mach...
The growing acceptance of XML as a standard for semi-structured documents on the Web opens up challenging opportunities for Web query languages. In this paper we introduce XML-GL,...
Stefano Ceri, Sara Comai, Ernesto Damiani, Piero F...