Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...
The need for Keyword search in databases is suggested both by Web integration with legacy database management system and by dynamic Web publication. However, it sacrifices the inh...
We track a large set of "rapidly" changing web pages and examine the assumption that the arrival of content changes follows a Poisson process on a microscale. We demonst...
We propose a method to evaluate queries using a last-resort semantic cache in a distributed Web search engine. The cache stores a group of frequent queries and for each of these qu...
In this paper, we describe an experiment in combined searching of web pages and digital library resources, exposed via an Open Archives metadata provider and web gateway service. ...