In the sponsored search model, search engines are paid by businesses that are interested in displaying ads for their site alongside the search results. Businesses bid for keywords...
Determining the similarity of short text snippets, such as search queries, works poorly with traditional document similarity measures (e.g., cosine), since there are often few, if...
The Internet as a medium for communication and information distribution has opened up new opportunities for distance education programs. Not only is the scope of a program, in ter...
As a good complement to page content, anchor texts have been extensively used, and proven to be useful, in commercial search engines. However, anchor texts have been assumed to be...
Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Jian-Yun Nie, Ji-Rong W...
: In this paper we propose an application of data mining methods in the prediction of the availability and performance of Internet paths. We deploy a general decision-making method...