In some applications such as filling in a customer information form on the web, some missing values may not be explicitly represented as such, but instead appear as potentially va...
We study the problem of answering ambiguous web queries in a setting where there exists a taxonomy of information, and that both queries and documents may belong to more than one ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Alan Halverso...
For a given query raised by a specific user, the Query Suggestion technique aims to recommend relevant queries which potentially suit the information needs of that user. Due to th...
Current search engines generally employ link analysis techniques to web-page re-ranking. However, the same techniques are problematic in small webs, such as websites or intranet w...
— We present three general approaches to detecting prototypical entities in a given taxonomy and apply them to a music information retrieval (MIR) problem. More precisely, we try...