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, ...
In this paper, we introduce an information theoretic method for estimating the usefulness of the hyperlink structure induced from the set of retrieved documents. We evaluate the e...
Performance evaluation is an important issue in Web search engine researches. Traditional evaluation methods rely on much human efforts and are therefore quite time-consuming. Wit...
Yiqun Liu, Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyu...
We consider the use of Bayesian topic models in the analysis of computer network traffic. Our approach utilizes latent Dirichlet allocation and time-varying dynamic latent Dirich...
Aggregated search refers to the integration of content from specialized corpora or verticals into web search results. Aggregation improves search when the user has vertical intent...