We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
Classifying and mining noise-free web pages will improve on accuracy of search results as well as search speed, and may benefit webpage organization applications (e.g., keyword-bas...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
Abstract. This paper designs an electronic commerce system that integrates conventional electronic commerce services with contemporary WWW advantages, such as comprehensive coverag...