In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
In this paper we investigate the task of Entity Ranking on the Web. Searchers looking for entities are arguably better served by presenting a ranked list of entities directly, rat...
Rianne Kaptein, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vries...
Where can I attend an interesting database workshop close to a sunny beach? Who are the strongest experts on service computing based upon their recent publication record and accep...
This paper explores the idea of dynamically adding multidestination links to Web pages, based on the context of the pages and users, as a way of assisting Web users in their infor...
Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Wendy Hall, David De Roure, ...
Motivated by our work with political scientists who need to manually analyze large Web archives of news sites, we present SpotSigs, a new algorithm for extracting and matching sig...
Martin Theobald, Jonathan Siddharth, Andreas Paepc...