Web and peer-to-peer systems have emerged as popular areas in distributed computing, and their integrated usage permits the benefits of both to be exploited. While much work in th...
A query burst is a period of heightened interest of users on a topic which yields a higher frequency of the search queries related to it. In this paper we examine the behavior of s...
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
People regularly interact with different representations of Web pages. A person looking for new information may initially find a Web page represented as a short snippet rendered b...
Jaime Teevan, Edward Cutrell, Danyel Fisher, Steve...
In this paper we present our system and experiments at the Third Web People Search Workshop (WePS-3) task for clustering web people search documents in English. In our experiments ...