Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...
We consider the problem of retrieving multiple documents relevant to the single subtopics of a given web query, termed “full-subtopic retrieval”. To solve this problem we pres...
Andrea Bernardini, Claudio Carpineto, Massimiliano...
Since WWW encourages hypertext and hypermedia document authoring (e.g. HTML or XML), Web authors tend to create documents that are composed of multiple pages connected with hyperl...
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
Today’s web is so huge and diverse that it arguably reflects the real world. For this reason, searching the web is a promising approach to find things in the real world. This ...