Focused web crawlers have recently emerged as an alternative to the well-established web search engines. While the well-known focused crawlers retrieve relevant webpages, there ar...
Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Schuber...
In order to improve the user search experience, Query Suggestion, a technique for generating alternative queries to Web users, has become an indispensable feature for commercial s...
Many have speculated that classifying web pages can improve a search engine's ranking of results. Intuitively results should be more relevant when they match the class of a q...
Paul N. Bennett, Krysta Marie Svore, Susan T. Duma...
Gazetteer services are an important component in a wide variety of systems, including geographic search engines and question answering systems. Unfortunately, the footprints provid...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
In an era that, searching the WWW for information becomes a tedious task, it is obvious that mainly search engines and other data mining mechanisms need to be enhanced with charact...