A wealth of information is available on the Web. But often, such data are hidden behind form interfaces which allow only a restrictive set of queries over the underlying databases...
Previous efforts on event detection from the web have focused primarily on web content and structure data ignoring the rich collection of web log data. In this paper, we propose t...
Qiankun Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wei...
We report on the CLEF 2006 WebCLEF track devoted to crosslingual web retrieval. We provide details about the retrieval tasks, the used topic set, and the results of WebCLEF partic...
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...
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...