In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
— As the academic world moves away from physical journals and proceedings towards online document repositories, the ability to efficiently locate work of interest among the torr...
Jayanthkumar Kannan, Beverly Yang, Scott Shenker, ...
Hierarchies provide a means of organizing, summarizing and accessing information. We describe a method for automatically generating hierarchies from small collections of text, and...
Though children frequently use web search engines to learn, interact, and be entertained, modern web search engines are poorly suited to children's needs, requiring relativel...
—Ranking plays important roles in contemporary Internet and vertical search engines. Among existing ranking algorithms, link analysis based algorithms have been proved as effecti...