The early success of link-based ranking algorithms was predicated on the assumption that links imply merit of the target pages. However, today many links exist for purposes other ...
Creating an ontology and populating it with data are both labor-intensive tasks requiring a high degree of expertise. Thus, scaling ontology creation and population to the size of ...
Detection of template and noise blocks in web pages is an important step in improving the performance of information retrieval and content extraction. Of the many approaches propos...
Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...
We address the problem of online term recurrence prediction: for a stream of terms, at each time point predict what term is going to recur next in the stream given the term occurre...