Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...
In recent years, different commercial Weblog subscribing systems have been proposed to return stories from users' subscribed feeds. In this paper, we propose a novel clusteri...
Xin Li, Jun Yan, Zhi-Hong Deng, Lei Ji, Weiguo Fan...
Information flows in a network where individuals influence each other. The diffusion rate captures how efficiently the information can diffuse among the users in the network. We p...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Continuous queries are queries for which responses given to users must be continuously updated, as the sources of interest get updated. Such queries occur, for instance, during on...