The web graph follows the power law distribution and has a hierarchy structure. But neither the PageRank algorithm nor any of its improvements leverage these attributes. In this p...
Yizhou Lu, Benyu Zhang, Wensi Xi, Zheng Chen, Yi L...
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
In this paper, we propose a method for identifying and ranking possible categories of any user query based on the meanings and common usages of the terms and phrases within the que...
Reza Taghizadeh Hemayati, Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Y...
The AncestorRank algorithm calculates an authority score by using just one characteristic of the web graph—the number of ancestors per node. For scalability, we estimate the num...
Can we leverage the community-contributed collections of rich media on the web to automatically generate representative and diverse views of the world's landmarks? We use a c...