In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Web sites today serve many different functions, such as corporate sites, search engines, e-stores, and so forth. As sites are created for different purposes, their structure and...
Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Ronny Lem...
Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this pa...
The computation of page importance in a huge dynamic graph has recently attracted a lot of attention because of the web. Page importance, or page rank is defined as the fixpoint o...