Despite the success of modern Web search engines, challenges remain when it comes to providing people with access to the right information at the right time. In this paper, we desc...
In this paper, we propose a method to search the Web for sentence substitutions for a given sentence query. Our method uses only lexico-syntactic patterns dynamically generated fro...
Given the rate of growth of the Web, scalability of search engines is a key issue, as the amount of hardware and network resources needed is large, and expensive. In addition, sea...
In this paper we study several dimensions of web dynamics in the context of large-scale Internet search engines. Both growth and update dynamics clearly represent big challenges f...
Topics in the field of Web Information Retrieval (IR) and web search are slowly being introduced at the undergraduate level. In this paper, we show how the curriculum for a new u...