A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...
Mining feedback information from user click-through data is an important issue for modern Web retrieval systems in terms of architecture analysis, performance evaluation and algor...
Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Bo Zhou, Liyun ...
This paper addresses the problem of Named Entity Recognition in Query (NERQ), which involves detection of the named entity in a given query and classification of the named entity...
Record deduplication is the task of merging database records that refer to the same underlying entity. In relational databases, accurate deduplication for records of one type is o...
Time synchronization is necessary in many distributed systems, but achieving synchronization in sensornets, which combine stringent precision requirements with severe resource con...
Jeremy Elson, Richard M. Karp, Christos H. Papadim...