We introduce a unified graph representation of the Web, which includes both structural and usage information. We model this graph using a simple union of the Web's hyperlink ...
Barbara Poblete, Carlos Castillo, Aristides Gionis
Searching online information is increasingly a daily activity for many people. The multilinguality of online content is also increasing (e.g. the proportion of English web users, ...
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Hany...
There has been considerable work on user browsing models for search engine results, both organic and sponsored. The click-through rate (CTR) of a result is the product of the prob...
Ramakrishnan Srikant, Sugato Basu, Ni Wang, Daryl ...
Discourse phenomena play a major role in text processing tasks. However, so far relatively little study has been devoted to the relevance of discourse phenomena for inference. The...
Azad Abad, Luisa Bentivogli, Ido Dagan, Danilo Gia...
Over the last several years, speech-based question answering (QA) has become very popular in contrast to pure search engine based approaches on a desktop. Open-domain QA systems a...