In contextual advertising, estimating the number of impressions of an ad is critical in planning and budgeting advertising campaigns. However, producing this forecast, even within...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Marcus Fontoura, Va...
The expanding and dynamic nature of the Web poses enormous challenges to most data mining techniques that try to extract patterns from Web data, such as Web usage and Web content....
Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF), which has been widely applied in IR, aims to derive a distribution from the top n pseudo relevant documents D. However, these documents are often ...
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
Background: A large volume of data and information about genes and gene products has been stored in various molecular biology databases. A major challenge for knowledge discovery ...