SALSA is a link-based ranking algorithm that takes the result set of a query as input, extends the set to include additional neighboring documents in the web graph, and performs a...
Heterogeneous entities or objects are very common and are usually interrelated with each other in many scenarios. For example, typical Web search activities involve multiple types...
In this paper we propose a hierarchical clustering engine, called SnakeT, that is able to organize on-the-fly the search results drawn from 16 commodity search engines into a hier...
Search engines largely rely on Web robots to collect information from the Web. Due to the unregulated open-access nature of the Web, robot activities are extremely diverse. Such c...
We present results from an experiment that studied the information search behavior of younger and older adults in a medical decision-making task. To study how different combinatio...