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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...