Nowadays, searches for the web pages of a person with a given name constitute a notable fraction of queries to Web search engines. Such a query would normally return web pages rela...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Zhaoqi Chen, Sharad Mehrotr...
Abstract— We present a novel cooperative vehicle position estimation algorithm, which can achieve higher levels of accuracy and reliability than existing GPS based positioning so...
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
The World Wide Web is growing at such a pace that even the biggest centralized search engines are able to index only a small part of the available documents on the Internet. The d...