We describe WebCLEF, the multilingual web track, that was introduced at CLEF 2005. We provide details of the tasks, the topics, and the results of WebCLEF participants. The mixed ...
The recent explosion of on-line information in Digital Libraries and on the World Wide Web has given rise to a number of query-based search engines and manually constructed topica...
Mehran Sahami, Salim Yusufali, Michelle Q. Wang Ba...
Traditional machine-learned ranking algorithms for web search are trained in batch mode, which assume static relevance of documents for a given query. Although such a batch-learni...
Abstract. Understanding a large schema without the assistance of persons already familiar with it (and its associated applications), is a hard and very time consuming task that occ...
Abstract. Analysis of aggregate and individual Web requests shows that PageRank is a poor predictor of traffic. We use empirical data to characterize properties of Web traffic not ...