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2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Adaptive web sites: user studies and simulation
Adaptive web sites have been proposed to enhance ease of navigation and information retrieval. A variety of approaches are described in the literature, but consideration of interf...
Doug Warner, Stephen D. Durbin, J. Neal Richter, Z...
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Image annotation using search and mining technologies
In this paper, we present a novel solution to the image annotation problem which annotates images using search and data mining technologies. An accurate keyword is required to ini...
Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Feng Jing, Wei-Ying Ma
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Topic-oriented query expansion for web search
The contribution of this paper includes three folders: (1) To introduce a topic-oriented query expansion model based on the Information Bottleneck theory that classify terms into ...
Shao-Chi Wang, Yuzuru Tanaka
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The impact of online music services on the demand for stars in the music industry
The music industry's business model is to produce stars. In order to do so, musicians producing music that fits into well defined clusters of factors explaining the demand of...
Ian Pascal Volz
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mining clickthrough data for collaborative web search
This paper is to investigate the group behavior patterns of search activities based on Web search history data, i.e., clickthrough data, to boost search performance. We propose a ...
Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng...
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
CWS: a comparative web search system
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng...
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Model-directed web transactions under constrained modalities
Zan Sun, Jalal Mahmud, Saikat Mukherjee, I. V. Ram...
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
GoGetIt!: a tool for generating structure-driven web crawlers
We present GoGetIt!, a tool for generating structure-driven crawlers that requires a minimum effort from the users. The tool takes as input a sample page and an entry point to a W...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Edleno Silva de Moura, J...
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Invisible participants: how cultural capital relates to lurking behavior
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
Vladimir Soroka, Sheizaf Rafaeli
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
What's really new on the web?: identifying new pages from a series of unstable web snapshots
Identifying and tracking new information on the Web is important in sociology, marketing, and survey research, since new trends might be apparent in the new information. Such chan...
Masashi Toyoda, Masaru Kitsuregawa