Many modern natural language-processing applications utilize search engines to locate large numbers of Web documents or to compute statistics over the Web corpus. Yet Web search e...
We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search engine query results. In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approxi...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carm...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
The web service model provides fundamental advantages compared to the classical software usage model. But transactions in the web service market have by far not reached the expect...