This paper presents and compares two methods for evaluating the syntactic similarity between documents. The first method uses the Patricia tree, constructed from the original doc...
We evaluate three different relevance feedback (RF) algorithms, Rocchio, Robertson/Sparck-Jones (RSJ) and Bayesian, in the context of Web search. We use a target-testing experimen...
Vishwa Vinay, Kenneth R. Wood, Natasa Milic-Frayli...
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
This paper presents a potential seed selection algorithm for web crawlers using a gain - share scoring approach. Initially we consider a set of arbitrarily chosen tourism queries. ...
In this paper, we investigate the exploitation of user profiles defined in social tagging services to personalize Web search. One of the key challenges of a personalization framewo...