Web users are always distracted by a large number of results returned from search engines. Clustering can efficiently facilitate users’ browsing pages of certain topic. However...
Abstract. In this paper, we elaborate on an approach to construction of semantic-linguistic feature vectors (FV) that are used in search. These FVs are built based on domain semant...
One of the most fundamental problems in web search is how to re-rank result web pages based on user logs. Most traditional models for re-ranking assume each query has a single int...
Web spamming techniques aim to achieve undeserved rankings in search results. Research has been widely conducted on identifying such spam and neutralizing its influence. However,...
In this paper, we describe a capture-recapture experiment conducted on Google's and MSN's cached directories. The anticipated outcome of this work was to monitor evoluti...