Quality assurance techniques for web applications have become increasingly important as web applications have gained in popularity and become an essential part of our daily lives....
We address the problem of measuring global quality metrics of search engines, like corpus size, index freshness, and density of duplicates in the corpus. The recently proposed est...
PageRank is known to be an efficient metric for computing general document importance in the Web. While commonly used as a one-size-fits-all measure, the ability to produce topica...
We address the problem of answering broad-topic queries on the World Wide Web. We present a link based analysis algorithm SelHITS, which is an improvement over Kleinberg's HI...
Community-based question and answer (Q&A) systems facilitate information exchange and enable the creation of reusable knowledge repositories. While these systems are growing i...