In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Institutions and companies that are based in countries where the main language is not English typically publish Web sites that offer the same information at least in the local lan...
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella, Emanuele Pianta, Chr...
We present a browser extension to dynamically learn to filter unwanted images (such as advertisements or flashy graphics) based on minimal user feedback. To do so, we apply the we...
Web page classification is important to many tasks in information retrieval and web mining. However, applying traditional textual classifiers on web data often produces unsatisfyi...
Some previous works show that a web page can be partitioned to multiple segments or blocks, and usually the importance of those blocks in a page is not equivalent. Also, it is pro...
Ruihua Song, Haifeng Liu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma