Skyline queries have gained much attention as alternative query semantics with pros (e.g.low query formulation overhead) and cons (e.g.large control over result size). To overcome ...
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
Web Page segmentation is a crucial step for many applications in Information Retrieval, such as text classification, de-duplication and full-text search. In this paper we describe...
The Propel Distributed Services Platform (PDSP) is the core software product of Propel, a new Internet infrastructure software company. The PDSP product was created to enable Java...
Michael J. Carey, Steve Kirsch, Mary Roth, Bert Va...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...