PageRank (PR) is one of the most popular ways to rank web pages. However, as the Web continues to grow in volume, it is becoming more and more difficult to crawl all the available...
Local search has become a hot topic recently in information retrieval research area. How to retrieve geographical information correctly and efficiently is a key challenge to locat...
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang,...
When working on a new project, researchers need to devote a significant amount of time and effort to surveying the relevant literature. This is required in order to gain experti...
The objective of this work is to derive quantitative statements about what fraction of web search queries issued to the state-of-the-art commercial search engines lead to excellen...
Hugo Zaragoza, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Ricardo A...
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...