Dynamic memory allocation is widely used in modern programs. General-purpose heap allocators often focus more on reducing their run-time overhead and memory space utilization, but...
Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...
Retrieving entities instead of just documents has become an important task for search engines. In this paper we study entity retrieval for news applications, and in particular the...
Gianluca Demartini, Malik Muhammad Saad Missen, Ro...
Though children frequently use web search engines to learn, interact, and be entertained, modern web search engines are poorly suited to children's needs, requiring relativel...
This paper focuses on online gift exchange in a setting where online and offline interactions are tightly intertwined and most of the exchanges require face-to-face interaction to...