: Blocking of foreign Web content by Internet access providers has been a hot topic for the last 18 months in Germany. Since fall 2001 the state of North-RhineWestphalia very activ...
Using content-specific models to guide information retrieval and extraction can provide richer interfaces to endusers for both understanding the context of news events and navigat...
Earl J. Wagner, Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Kennet...
In this paper, we present two ways to improve the precision of HITS-based algorithms on Web documents. First, by analyzing the limitations of current HITS-based algorithms, we pro...
Both human users and crawlers face the problem of finding good start pages to explore some topic. We show how to assist in qualifying pages as start nodes by link-based ranking al...
Hierarchical categorization of documents is a task receiving growing interest due to the widespread proliferation of topic hierarchies for text documents. The worst problem of hie...