—The success of a Public Key Infrastructure such as the Web of Trust (WoT) heavily depends on its ability to ensure that public keys are used by their legitimate owners, thereby ...
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
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Mining feedback information from user click-through data is an important issue for modern Web retrieval systems in terms of architecture analysis, performance evaluation and algor...
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While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
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An important issue for the Semantic Web is how to combine open-world ontology languages with closed-world (non-monotonic) rule paradigms. Several proposals for hybrid languages all...