Rapid pervasion of the web into users' daily lives has put much importance on capturing location-specific information on the web, due to the fact that most human activities o...
Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Yansheng Lu, Wei-...
A statistical database (StatDB) retrieves only aggregate results, as opposed to individual tuples. This paper investigates the construction of a privacy preserving StatDB that can...
Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...
Web archives play an important role in preserving our cultural heritage for future generations. When searching them, a serious problem arises from the fact that terminology evolve...
Klaus Berberich, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Mauro Sozio...
Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...