Most of the information needs today can be satisfied by searching and browsing the Web. However, repetitive tasks such as monitoring information on Web sites should be done autom...
How to effectively protect against spam on search ranking results is an important issue for contemporary web search engines. This paper addresses the problem of combating one majo...
Guoyang Shen, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Guang Feng, Sh...
Many sites are created by people who lack professional training in web design. We present `SiteGuide', a tool that helps amateur web designers to decide which information wil...
We present a general framework for the task of extracting specific information “on demand” from a large corpus such as the Web under resource-constraints. Given a database wit...
Major search engines currently use the history of a user's actions (e.g., queries, clicks) to personalize search results. In this paper, we present a new personalized service...