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CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 8 months ago
Optimal Threshold Control by the Robots of Web Search Engines with Obsolescence of Documents
A typical web search engine consists of three principal parts: crawling engine, indexing engine, and searching engine. The present work aims to optimize the performance of the cra...
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Alexander N. Dudin, Valent...
SEMWEB
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Watson, more than a Semantic Web search engine
In this tool report, we present an overview of the Watson system, a Semantic Web search engine providing various functionalities not only to find and locate ontologies and semanti...
Mathieu d'Aquin, Enrico Motta
ECIR
2011
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Introducing the User-over-Ranking Hypothesis
The User-over-Ranking hypothesis states that rather the user herself than a web search engine’s ranking algorithm can help to improve retrieval performance. The means are longer ...
Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen
ACL
2009
13 years 10 months ago
The Impact of Query Refinement in the Web People Search Task
Searching for a person name in a Web Search Engine usually leads to a number of web pages that refer to several people sharing the same name. In this paper we study whether it is ...
Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigó...
VLDB
2002
ACM
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14 years 2 days ago
I/O-Conscious Data Preparation for Large-Scale Web Search Engines
Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...
Maxim Lifantsev, Tzi-cker Chiueh
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 2 days ago
The web retrieval task and its evaluation in the third NTCIR workshop
This paper gives an overview of the evaluation method used for the Web Retrieval Task in the Third NTCIR Workshop, which is currently in progress. In the Web Retrieval Task, we tr...
Koji Eguchi, Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, Kazuko Kuriy...
JSS
2002
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14 years 3 days ago
Architectural design and evaluation of an efficient Web-crawling system
This paper presents an architectural design and evaluation result of an efficient Web-crawling system. The design involves a fully distributed architecture, a URL allocating algor...
Hongfei Yan, Jianyong Wang, Xiaoming Li, Lin Guo
CN
1998
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14 years 4 days ago
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the...
Sergey Brin, Lawrence Page
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Automatically identifying localizable queries
Personalization of web search results as a technique for improving user satisfaction has received notable attention in the research community over the past decade. Much of this wo...
Michael J. Welch, Junghoo Cho
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Enhancing web search by promoting multiple search engine use
Any given Web search engine may provide higher quality results than others for certain queries. Therefore, it is in users' best interest to utilize multiple search engines. I...
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Mikhail Bilenko...