This paper focuses on using hyperlinks in the ranking of web search results. We give a brief overview of the vast body of work in the area; we provide a quantitative comparison of ...
Non-uniform query languages make searching over heterogeneous information sources difficult. Our approach is to allow a user to compose Boolean queries in one rich front-end lang...
As opposed to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) which views whole documents as atomic units of retrieval, XML IR processes XML elements as possible units of retrieval. Many o...
It is often assumed that developers’ view of their system and its environment is always consistent with everyone else’s; in practice, this assumption can be false, as the deve...
Search engine logs are an emerging new type of data that offers interesting opportunities for data mining. Existing work on mining such data has mostly attempted to discover knowl...