In this paper, we study search bot traffic from search engine query logs at a large scale. Although bots that generate search traffic aggressively can be easily detected, a large ...
Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when interpr...
The demand for real-time database services has been increasing recently. Examples include sensor data fusion, decision support, web information services, and online trading. In th...
Kyoung-Don Kang, Sang Hyuk Son, John A. Stankovic,...
With an explosion in the proliferation of user-generated content in communities, information overload is increasing and quality of readily available online content is deterioratin...
Open domain question answering (QA) systems have to bridge the potential vocabulary mismatch between a question and its candidate answers. One can view this as a recall problem and...
Stefan Schlobach, Marius Olsthoorn, Maarten de Rij...