The number of vertical search engines and portals has rapidly increased over the last years, making the importance of a topic-driven (focused) crawler evident. In this paper, we de...
The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...
We present a system that gathers and analyzes online discussion as it relates to consumer products. Weblogs and online message boards provide forums that record the voice of the p...
Natalie S. Glance, Matthew Hurst, Kamal Nigam, Mat...
Ordered lists of objects are widely used as representational forms. Such ordered objects include Web search results or bestseller lists. In spite of their importance, methods of p...
The World-Wide Web consists not only of informational, but also computational resources. However, these resources, especially computational ones are underutilized. One characteris...