Web information retrieval is best known for its use of the Web’s link structure as a source of evidence. Global link evidence is by nature query-independent, and is therefore no ...
We propose a weakly-supervised approach for extracting class attributes from structured text available within Web documents. The overall precision of the extracted attributes is a...
This paper describes/represents an approach to the design of an information retrieval of providing an search of users. The Next generation of information systems will rely on coll...
The TREC-2001 Web track evaluation experiments at the Justsystem site are described with a focus on the "aboutness" based approach in text retrieval. In the web ad hoc t...
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...