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...
Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
The web log data embed much of web users' browsing behavior. From the web logs, one can discover patterns that predict the users' future requests based on their current b...
Historical prices are important information that can help consumers decide whether the time is right to buy a product. They provide both a context to the users, and facilitate the...