Abstract Most ranking algorithms are based on the optimization of some loss functions, such as the pairwise loss. However, these loss functions are often different from the criter...
The Rich News system, that can automatically annotate radio and television news with the aid of resources retrieved from the World Wide Web, is described. Automatic speech recogni...
Mike Dowman, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham, B...
Aggregating search results from a variety of heterogeneous sources or verticals such as news, image and video into a single interface is a popular paradigm in web search. Although...
Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, Joemon M. J...
A large number of online databases are hidden behind the web. Users to these systems can form queries through web forms to retrieve a small sample of the database. Sampling such h...
Anirban Maiti, Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, Gautam D...
A basic problem in the management of web servers is capacity planning: you want enough capacity to be able to serve peak loads, but not too much so as to avoid excessive costs. It...