— The web today is increasingly characterized by social and real-time signals, which we believe represent two frontiers in information retrieval. In this paper, we present Earlyb...
Michael Busch, Krishna Gade, Brian Larson, Patrick...
Yellow pages catalogs and corresponding directory services on the web are a widely used business concept for helping people to find companies providing services and selling product...
—With the growing popularity of social networking, traditional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Telecom operators have both started exploring new opportunities to boost thei...
Ranking for multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) is a task to rank documents of different languages solely based on their relevancy to the query regardless of query’s langu...
A unique type of Web service, called a Social Network Service (SNS), first appeared in 2003. Some researches suggested a method to extract meaningful information from SNSs. Such ...