Extracting useful knowledge from large network datasets has become a fundamental challenge in many domains, from scientific literature to social networks and the web. We introduc...
Duen Horng Chau, Aniket Kittur, Jason I. Hong, Chr...
Many Web sources provide forms to allow users to query their hidden data. For instance, online stores such as Amazon.com have search interfaces, using which users can query informa...
We present a family of measures of proximity of an arbitrary node in a directed graph to a pre-specified subset of nodes, called the anchor. Our measures are based on three differ...
Amruta Joshi, Ravi Kumar, Benjamin Reed, Andrew To...
This paper introduces a novel link-based ranking algorithm based on a model of focused Web surfers. FocusedRank is described and compared to implementations of PageRank and Topic-...
Philip O'Brien, Tony Abou-Assaleh, Tapajyoti Das, ...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...