The currently booming search engine industry has determined many online organizations to attempt to artificially increase their ranking in order to attract more visitors to their ...
The Web has become an excellent source for gathering consumer opinions. There are now numerous Web sites containing such opinions, e.g., customer reviews of products, forums, disc...
Two important architectural choices underlie the success of the Web: numerous, independently operated servers speak a common protocol, and a single type of client--the Web browser...
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
Knowledge discovery on social network data can uncover latent social trends and produce valuable findings that benefit the welfare of the general public. A growing amount of resea...