We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
Data items are often associated with a location in which they are present or collected, and their relevance or in uence decays with their distance. Aggregate values over such data...
Twitter is a new web application playing dual roles of online social networking and micro-blogging. Users communicate with each other by publishing text-based posts. The popularit...
Zi Chu, Steven Gianvecchio, Haining Wang, Sushil J...
When dealing with dynamic, untrusted content, such as on the Web, software behavior must be sandboxed, typically through use of a language like JavaScript. However, even for such ...