The rapid growth of the World-Wide Web poses unprecedented scaling challenges for general-purpose crawlers and search engines. In this paper we describe a new hypertext resource d...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom
Previous work on domain specific search services in the area of depressive illness has documented the significant human cost required to setup and maintain closed-crawl parameters....
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Rame...
Subject-specific search facilities on health sites are usually built using manual inclusion and exclusion rules. These can be expensive to maintain and often provide incomplete c...
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kath...
The large amount of available information on the Web makes it hard for users to locate resources about particular topics of interest. Traditional search tools, e.g., search engines...
Focused crawlers are considered as a promising way to tackle the scalability problem of topic-oriented or personalized search engines. To design a focused crawler, the choice of s...