Search engines are the primary gateways of information access on the Web today. Behind the scenes, search engines crawl the Web to populate a local indexed repository of Web pages...
The WWW provides a simple yet effective media for users to search, browse, and retrieve information in the Web. Web log mining is a promising tool to study user behaviors, which co...
A link farm is a set of web pages constructed to mislead the importance of target pages in search engine results by boosting their link-based ranking scores. In this paper, we int...
Most queries in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Identifying the major senses and facets of queries from search log data, referred to as query subtopic mining in this pa...
Yunhua Hu, Ya-nan Qian, Hang Li, Daxin Jiang, Jian...
Users’ cross-lingual queries to a digital library system might be short and not included in a common translation dictionary (unknown terms). In this paper, we investigate the fe...