Web spam is a widely-recognized threat to the quality and security of the Web. Web spam pages pollute search engine indexes, burden Web crawlers and Web mining services, and expos...
Abstract— The current approach in web searching, i.e., centralized search engines, rises issues that question their future applicability: 1) coverage and scalability, 2) freshnes...
—User’s behaviour in browsing sessions is a valuable source of information useful to analyze user interests and personalize the human-computer interaction during information se...
A use case involving integrating results from search engines illustrates how the meta-metadata language facilitates interoperable metadata semantics. Formal semantics can be hard ...
Yin Qu, Andruid Kerne, Andrew M. Webb, Aaron Herst...
Abstract. The original purpose of Web metadata was to protect endusers from possible harmful content and to simplify search and retrieval. However they can also be exploited in mor...