Although significant efforts have been devoted to the study and evaluation of information retrieval systems from an algorithmic perspective, far less work has been performed on t...
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
In recent years, there has been a prevalence of search engines being employed to find useful information in the Web as they efficiently explore hyperlinks between web pages which ...
Zhenglu Yang, Lin Li, Botao Wang, Masaru Kitsurega...
In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised learning approach for classifying program (bot) generated web search traffic from that of genuine human users. The work is motivated by...
Hongwen Kang, Kuansan Wang, David Soukal, Fritz Be...
Abstract— Recent advances in graph-based search techniques derived from Kleinberg’s work [1] have been impressive. This paper further improves the graph-based search algorithm ...