While searching the web, the user is often confronted by a great number of results, generally displayed in a list which is sorted according to the relevance of the results. Facing...
Nicolas Bonnel, Vincent Lemaire, Alexandre Cotarma...
Any given Web search engine may provide higher quality results than others for certain queries. Therefore, it is in users' best interest to utilize multiple search engines. I...
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Mikhail Bilenko...
This paper deals with one aspect of the index quality of search engines: index freshness. The purpose is to analyse the update strategies of the major Web search engines Google, Y...
In the current Web scenario a video browsing tool that produces on-the-fly storyboards is more and more a need. Video summary techniques can be helpful but, due to their long proc...
Marco Furini, Filippo Geraci, Manuela Montangero, ...
Computing the pairwise semantic similarity between all words on the Web is a computationally challenging task. Parallelization and optimizations are necessary. We propose a highly...
Patrick Pantel, Eric Crestan, Arkady Borkovsky, An...