Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Syndication systems on the Web have attracted vast amounts of attention in recent years. As technologies have emerged and matured, there has been a transition to more expressive s...
Abstract. In recent times, the proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much larger audience to access and share data currently available in various Ge...
Alberto Belussi, Omar Boucelma, Barbara Catania, Y...
The wealth of information contained in the world-wide web has created much interest in systems for integrating information from multiple sites. We describe a universal wrapper mac...
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...