We hypothesize that the variance in volume of high-velocity queries over time can be explained by observing that these queries are formulated in response to events in the world tha...
As directories of named places, gazetteers link the names to geographic footprints and place types. Most existing gazetteers are managed strictly top-down: entries can only be adde...
This paper studies a text mining problem, comparative sentence mining. A comparative sentence expresses an ordering relation between two sets of entities with respect to some comm...
The two most important tasks in information extraction from the Web are webpage structure understanding and natural language sentences processing. However, little work has been don...
Chunyu Yang, Yong Cao, Zaiqing Nie, Jie Zhou, Ji-R...
Traditional information retrieval techniques based on keyword search help to identify a ranked set of relevant documents, which often contains many documents in the top ranks that...