A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza...
This paper is a July 1999 snapshot of a "whitepaper" that I've been working on. The purpose of the whitepaper, which I initially drafted in April 1999, was to formu...
Construct web applications to provide dynamic, personalized web contents with high scalability and performance is a challenge to the software industry in the new Internet era. In ...
Query-independent features (also called document priors), such as the number of incoming links to a document, its Page-Rank, or the type of its associated URL, have been successfu...
World-Wide Web proxy servers that cache documents can potentially reduce three quantities: the number of requests that reach popular servers, the volume of network trac resulting ...
Marc Abrams, Charles R. Standridge, Ghaleb Abdulla...