In this paper, we propose a novel method to infer the web user’s Information Content (IC), which is the information that the user must examine to complete her task. In particula...
Searching on the Internet has grown in importance over the last few years, as huge amount of information is invariably accumulated on the Web. The problem involves locating the des...
P. Deepa Shenoy, K. G. Srinivasa, Achint Oommen Th...
Web spamming techniques aim to achieve undeserved rankings in search results. Research has been widely conducted on identifying such spam and neutralizing its influence. However,...
This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
The Web allows users to share their work very effectively leading to the rapid re-use and remixing of content on the Web including text, images, and videos. Scientific research d...