This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
In order to improve the user search experience, Query Suggestion, a technique for generating alternative queries to Web users, has become an indispensable feature for commercial s...
A novel method to automatically associate ontological concepts to their realisations in texts is presented. The method has been developed in the context of the Papyrus project to ...
Geo-referenced information is used by a growing number of “spatially-aware” tools in different application areas, including tourism, marketing, environmental management, and m...
This paper introduces the problem of matching people names to their corresponding social network identities such as their Twitter accounts. Existing tools for this purpose build u...
Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong...