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CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Summarizing local context to personalize global web search
The PC Desktop is a very rich repository of personal information, efficiently capturing user's interests. In this paper we propose a new approach towards an automatic persona...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang...
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ACL
2009
15 years 13 days ago
Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve Web Search
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong
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NLDB
2011
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Querying Linked Data Using Semantic Relatedness: A Vocabulary Independent Approach
Abstract. Linked Data brings the promise of incorporating a new dimension to the Web where the availability of Web-scale data can determine a paradigmatic transformation of the Web...
André Freitas, João Gabriel Oliveira...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
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CICLING
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Extracting Key Phrases to Disambiguate Personal Names on the Web
Abstract. When you search for information regarding a particular person on the web, a search engine returns many pages. Some of these pages may be for people with the same name. Ho...
Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuk...