The CLEF-2007 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) track included two tasks: to identify topically coherent segments of English interviews in a known-boundary condition, and to...
Enabling keyword queries over relational databases (KQDB) benefits a large population of users who have difficulty in understanding the database schema or using SQLs. However, sin...
This paper describes an approach towards automating the identification of design problems with three-dimensional mediated or gaming environments through the capture and query of u...
Tim Marsh, Kiyoung Yang, Cyrus Shahabi, Wee Ling W...
This paper describes a new paradigm for modeling traffic levels on the world wide web (WWW) using a method of entropy maximization. This traffic is subject to the conservation con...
The social impact from the World Wide Web cannot be underestimated, but technologies used to build the Web are also revolutionizing the sharing of business and government informat...
Ronald Fagin, Ravi Kumar, Kevin S. McCurley, Jasmi...
A recently published approach to adaptive page rank, using the solution of quadratic optimization methods with a set of simple constraints [3], is modified to permit classificatio...
Franco Scarselli, Ah Chung Tsoi, Markus Hagenbuchn...
This paper presents an algorithm to bound the bandwidth of a Web crawler. The crawler collects statistics on the transfer rate of each server to predict the expected bandwidth use...
Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Maggini, Filippo Mar...
With the page explosion of WWW, how to cover more useful information with limited storage and computation resources becomes more and more important in web IR research. Using web p...
Today, news browsing and searching is one of the most important Internet activity. This paper introduces a general framework to build a News search engine by describing Velthune, ...
Information on the Web is not only abundant but also redundant. This redundancy of information has an important consequence on the relation between the recall of an information ga...