As recently as the 1990s, studies showed that most people preferred getting information
from other people rather than from information retrieval systems. Of course, in that time …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Liu has written a comprehensive text on Web mining, which consists of two parts. The first
part covers the data mining and machine learning foundations, where all the essential …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

Over the last decade, methods of web corpus construction and the evaluation of web
corpora have been actively researched. Prominently, the WaCky initiative has provided both …

This is a survey of the science and practice of web crawling. While at first glance web
crawling may appear to be merely an application of breadth-first-search, the truth is that …

Introduction to Information Retrieval is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical
and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text …

Semantic similarity measures play important roles in information retrieval and Natural
Language Processing. Previous work in semantic web-related applications such as …

Estimating characteristics of large graphs via sampling is a vital part of the study of complex
networks. Current sampling methods such as (independent) random vertex and random …

We design novel, asymptotically more efficient data structures and algorithms for programs
whose data access patterns exhibit some degree of predictability. To this end, we propose …