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CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
SLOQUE: slot-based query expansion for complex questions
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, ...
WISE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluation of Result Merging Strategies for Metasearch Engines
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
AIR
2004
98views more  AIR 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
Further Experiments on Collaborative Ranking in Community-Based Web Search
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Distributed Web Search as a Stochastic Game
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
ICDE
2007
IEEE
124views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Topology Search over Biological Databases
We introduce the notion of a data topology and the problem of topology search over databases. A data topology summarizes the set of all possible relationships that connect a given...
Lin Guo, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Golan Yona