Short search engine queries do not provide contextual information, making it difficult for traditional search engines to understand what users are really requesting. One approach ...
Ajith Kodakateri Pudhiyaveetil, Susan Gauch, Hiep ...
Users increasingly rely on their mobile devices to search local entities, typically businesses, while on the go. Even though recent work has recognized that the ranking signals in...
Duplicate URLs have brought serious troubles to the whole pipeline of a search engine, from crawling, indexing, to result serving. URL normalization is to transform duplicate URLs...
Tao Lei, Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Yan Ke, Xiaodon...
Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...
Automated extraction of ontological knowledge from text corpora is a relevant task in Natural Language Processing. In this paper, we focus on the problem of finding hypernyms for ...