New devices gaining access to the Internet need to obtain multimedia content adapted to their limited capacities. Scalable formats allow to retrieve different versions of a single...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Abstract. Term weighting is one of the most important aspects of modern Web retrieval systems. The weight associated with a given term in a document shows the importance of the ter...
Hyperlinks are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, highly responsible for its success. XLink improves on HTML's linking capabilities in several ways. In particular, l...
In this paper, we study the problem of learning block classification models to estimate block functions. We distinguish general models, which are learned across multiple sites, an...