We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
Indexing and retrieval of speech content in various forms such as broadcast news, customer care data and on-line media has gained a lot of interest for a wide range of application...
Dogan Can, Erica Cooper, Arnab Ghoshal, Martin Jan...
In this paper, we continue our investigations of "web spam": the injection of artificially-created pages into the web in order to influence the results from search engin...
Alexandros Ntoulas, Marc Najork, Mark Manasse, Den...
We present a method for automatically acquiring of a corpus of disputed claims from the web. We consider a factual claim to be disputed if a page on the web suggests both that the...
Rob Ennals, Dan Byler, John Mark Agosta, Barbara R...
The research reported in this paper is the first phase of a larger project on the automatic classification of web pages by their genres, using ngram representations of the web pag...