The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Web Directories are repositories of Web pages organized in a hierarchy of topics and sub-topics. In this paper, we present DirectoryRank, a ranking framework that orders the pages...
Vlassis Krikos, Sofia Stamou, Pavlos Kokosis, Alex...
Proxy caches have become a central mechanism for reducing the latency of web document retrieval. While caching alone reduces latency for previously requested documents, web docume...
Web Page segmentation is a crucial step for many applications in Information Retrieval, such as text classification, de-duplication and full-text search. In this paper we describe...
Contextual information provides an important basis for identifying and understanding users' information needs. Our previous work in traditional information retrieval systems ...