Bilkent University Web-db Research Group aims to develop solutions for Web data management from a database point of view, as well as focusing on efficiency and effectiveness of Web-IR.

Our current research interests include
  • Social Web search and personalization
  • Temporal analysis of web search results
  • Efficiency and scalability issues  for Web-IR
  • Domain-specific (a.k.a. topical/vertical) search engines
  • Web information extraction
  • Metadata based modeling and querying of Web resources
  • XML keyword search
News & Announcements

01.04.2012 We are looking for highly-motivated and hard-working GRADUATE and  UNDERGRADUATE students for research projects. If you feel like interested, please drop an email to oulusoy@cs.bilkent.edu.tr

01.02.2012 Our article entitled "Static index pruning in web search engines: Combining term and document popularities with query views" is published in the first issue of ACM Transactions on Information Systems journal.

01.02.2012 Our 3 works appear in ECIR 2012:

  • Adaptive Time-to-Live Strategies for Query Result Caching in Web Search Engines  
  • In Praise of Laziness: A Lazy Strategy for Web Information Extraction
  • On the Size of Full Element-Indexes for XML Keyword Search