We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
Most people have long term information interests. Current Web search engines satisfy immediate information needs. Specific sites support tracking of long term interests. We prese...
With the increasing importance of search in guiding today's web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the m...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
DTD and its instance have been considered the standard for data representation and information exchange format on the current web. However, when coming to the next generation of w...