Modern search engines are expected to make documents searchable shortly after they appear on the ever changing Web. To satisfy this requirement, the Web is frequently crawled. Due...
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to quickly find desired information without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search ...
Sofus A. Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Dav...
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
Many machine learning technologies such as support vector machines, boosting, and neural networks have been applied to the ranking problem in information retrieval. However, since...
Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Ming-Feng Tsai, De-Sheng W...
Link spam is used to increase the ranking of certain target web pages by misleading the connectivity-based ranking algorithms in search engines. In this paper we study how web pag...