Web crawlers are increasingly used for focused tasks such as the extraction of data from Wikipedia or the analysis of social networks like last.fm. In these cases, pages are far m...
Franziska von dem Bussche, Klara A. Weiand, Benedi...
We propose a new technique for the efficient search and navigation in XML documents and streams. This technique takes string matching algorithms designed for efficient keyword sear...
Christoph Koch, Stefanie Scherzinger, Michael Schm...
Finding out about a topic online can be time consuming. It involves visiting multiple news sites, encyclopedia entries, video repositories and other resources while discarding irr...
Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Bi...
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...
Determining the similarity of short text snippets, such as search queries, works poorly with traditional document similarity measures (e.g., cosine), since there are often few, if...