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...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
The rise of blogging as a new grassroots publishing medium and the many interesting peculiarities that characterise blogs compared to other genres of documents opened up several n...
In this paper we describe a biography summarization system using sentence classification and ideas from information retrieval. Although the individual techniques are not new, asse...
This paper describes a visual playlist creation method based on a previously designed visualization technique for large music collections. The method gives users high-level contro...