We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
Abstract. The rapid growth of on-line information including multimedia contents during the last decade caused a major problem for Web users - there is too much information availabl...
We designed and implemented a software system, called WebCrow, that represents the first solver for Italian crosswords and the first system that tackles a language game using the...
We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search engine query results. In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approxi...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carm...
This paper describes a new paradigm for modeling traffic levels on the world wide web (WWW) using a method of entropy maximization. This traffic is subject to the conservation con...