We are experiencing an unprecedented increase of content contributed by users in forums such as blogs, social networking sites and microblogging services. Such abundance of conten...
The World Wide Web is a vast resource for information. At the same time it is extremely distributed. A particular type of data such as restaurant lists maybe scattered across thous...
As the result of interactions between visitors and a web site, an http log file contains very rich knowledge about users on-site behaviors, which, if fully exploited, can better c...
Many Web information services utilize techniques of information extraction (IE) to collect important facts from the Web. To create more advanced services, one possible method is t...
This paper presents ListWebQA, a question answering system that is aimed specifically at extracting answers to list questions exclusively from web snippets. Answers are identifi...