Empowering users to access databases using simple keywords can relieve the users from the steep learning curve of mastering a structured query language and understanding complex a...
Web search is a challenging task. Previous research mainly exploits texts on the Web pages or link information between the pages, while multimedia information is largely ignored. ...
The early success of link-based ranking algorithms was predicated on the assumption that links imply merit of the target pages. However, today many links exist for purposes other ...
Abstract. This paper describes a path-based method to use the multi-step navigation information discovered from website structures for web page ranking. Use of hyperlinks to enhanc...
— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...