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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Block-based web search
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
APWEB
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Mining, Ranking, and Using Acronym Patterns
Techniques for being able to automatically identify acronym patterns are very important for enhancing a multitude of applications that rely upon search. This task is challenging, d...
Xiaonan Ji, Gu Xu, James Bailey, Hang Li
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
142views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou
GVD
2004
94views Database» more  GVD 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
MIWeb: Mediator-based Integration of Web Sources
MIWeb realizes a mediator-based integration of heterogeneous metadata sources over the Web. Mediators are well known from database integration. They improve the quality of search ...
Susanne Busse, Thomas Kabisch