Search engines return ranked lists of Web pages in response to queries. These pages are starting points for post-query navigation, but may be insufficient for search tasks involvi...
Recommender systems have been subject to an enormous rise in popularity and research interest over the last ten years. At the same time, very large taxonomies for product classifi...
Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Georg Lausen, Lars Schmidt-Th...
The blogosphere--the totality of blog-related Web sites-has become a great source of trend analysis in areas such as product survey, customer relationship, and marketing. Existing...
The non-English Web is growing at breakneck speed, but available language processing tools are mostly English based. Taxonomies are a case in point: while there are plenty of comm...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich...
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...