Combating Web spam has become one of the top challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art spam detection techniques are usually designed for specific known types of Web spa...
Yiqun Liu, Rongwei Cen, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Li...
Traditional information search in which queries are posed against a known and rigid schema over a structured database is shifting towards a Web scenario in which exposed schemas ar...
The construction of composite Web Services from service fragments requires semantic descriptions of service offers and service requests. We propose the use of dependencies as a mo...
In this paper we propose an attribute retrieval approach which extracts and ranks attributes from Web tables. We use simple heuristics to filter out improbable attributes and we ...
In this paper we examine user queries with respect to diversity: providing a mix of results across different interpretations. Using two query log analysis techniques (click entrop...
Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Murad Abouammoh, Serg...