In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...
Social annotations on a Web document are highly generalized description of topics contained in that page. Their tagged frequency indicates the user attentions with various degrees...
Junyan Zhu, Can Wang, Xiaofei He, Jiajun Bu, Chun ...
It is generally believed that propagated anchor text is very important for effective Web search as offered by the commercial search engines. “Google Bombs” are a notable illus...
Information Retrieval (IR) is a major component in many of our daily activities, with perhaps its most prominent role manifested in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines...
One of the most fundamental problems in web search is how to re-rank result web pages based on user logs. Most traditional models for re-ranking assume each query has a single int...