Fishnet is a web browser that always displays web pages in their entirety, independent of their size. Fishnet accomplishes this by using a fisheye view, i.e. by showing a focus re...
: Classic IR (information retrieval) is inherently predicated on users searching for information, the socalled "information need". But the need behind a web search is oft...
Abstract—Search context is a crucial factor that helps to understand a user’s information need in ad-hoc Web page retrieval. A query log of a search engine contains rich inform...
This paper presents a potential seed selection algorithm for web crawlers using a gain - share scoring approach. Initially we consider a set of arbitrarily chosen tourism queries. ...
Identifying highlights in multimedia content such as video and audio is currently a very difficult technical problem. We present and evaluate a novel algorithm that identifies hig...