—Social networks and discussion boards have become a significant outlet where people communicate and express their opinion freely. Although the social networks themselves are us...
The detection and improvement of low-quality information is a key concern in Web applications that are based on user-generated content; a popular example is the online encyclopedi...
We describe a joint probabilistic model for modeling the contents and inter-connectivity of document collections such as sets of web pages or research paper archives. The model is...
: This work focuses on clustering a site into groups of documents that are predictive of future user accesses. Two approaches have been developed and tested. The first approach use...
Aggregated search refers to the integration of content from specialized corpora or verticals into web search results. Aggregation improves search when the user has vertical intent...