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ASWC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Merging and Ranking Answers in the Semantic Web: The Wisdom of Crowds
In this paper we propose algorithms for combining and ranking answers from distributed heterogeneous data sources in the context of a multi-ontology Question Answering task. Our pr...
Vanessa Lopez, Andriy Nikolov, Miriam Ferná...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On domain similarity and effectiveness of adapting-to-rank
Adapting to rank address the the problem of insufficient domainspecific labeled training data in learning to rank. However, the initial study shows that adaptation is not always...
Keke Chen, Jing Bai, Srihari Reddy, Belle L. Tseng
NCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Improved Result Ranking in P2P File-Sharing Systems by Probing for Metadata
One of the reasons that search performance of peerto-peer file-sharing systems is poor is that results are poorly described, hurting the client’s ability to rank them. This is a...
Wai Gen Yee, Linh Thai Nguyen, Ophir Frieder
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An Analysis of NP-Completeness in Novelty and Diversity Ranking
Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
Ben Carterette
ICDE
2007
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
DSphere: A Source-Centric Approach to Crawling, Indexing and Searching the World Wide Web
We describe DSPHERE1 - a decentralized system for crawling, indexing, searching and ranking of documents in the World Wide Web. Unlike most of the existing search technologies tha...
Bhuvan Bamba, Ling Liu, James Caverlee, Vaibhav Pa...