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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Block-based web search
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
229views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
Spark: top-k keyword query in relational databases
With the increasing amount of text data stored in relational databases, there is a demand for RDBMS to support keyword queries over text data. As a search result is often assemble...
Yi Luo, Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang 0011, Xiaofang Zhou
KDD
2009
ACM
152views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
TANGENT: a novel, 'Surprise me', recommendation algorithm
Most of recommender systems try to find items that are most relevant to the older choices of a given user. Here we focus on the "surprise me" query: A user may be bored ...
Kensuke Onuma, Hanghang Tong, Christos Faloutsos
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
User modeling for full-text federated search in peer-to-peer networks
User modeling for information retrieval has mostly been studied to improve the effectiveness of information access in centralized repositories. In this paper we explore user model...
Jie Lu, James P. Callan