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WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
175views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Ranking distributed probabilistic data
Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...
Feifei Li, Ke Yi, Jeffrey Jestes
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
196views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Adaptive location constraint processing
An important problem for many location-based applications is the continuous evaluation of proximity relations among moving objects. These relations express whether a given set of ...
Zhengdao Xu, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
JCDL
2005
ACM
161views Education» more  JCDL 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Downloading textual hidden web content through keyword queries
An ever-increasing amount of information on the Web today is available only through search interfaces: the users have to type in a set of keywords in a search form in order to acc...
Alexandros Ntoulas, Petros Zerfos, Junghoo Cho
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A search engine for natural language applications
Many modern natural language-processing applications utilize search engines to locate large numbers of Web documents or to compute statistics over the Web corpus. Yet Web search e...
Michael J. Cafarella, Oren Etzioni