Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
In this paper, we propose a universal solution to web search and web browsing on handheld devices for visually impaired people. For this purpose, we propose (1) to automatically c...
Previous efforts on event detection from the web have focused primarily on web content and structure data ignoring the rich collection of web log data. In this paper, we propose t...
Qiankun Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wei...
In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...
The link structure of the Web graph is used in algorithms such as Kleinberg’s HITS and Google’s PageRank to assign authoritative weights to Web pages and thus rank them. Both ...