Abstract This paper presents a method for combining query-relevance with information-novelty in the context of text retrieval and summarization. The Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR...
Just as the link structure of the web is a critical component in today's web search, complex relationships (i.e., the different ways the dots are connected) will be an import...
Keyword queries over structured databases are notoriously ambiguous. No single interpretation of a keyword query can satisfy all users, and multiple interpretations may yield over...
Elena Demidova, Peter Fankhauser, Xuan Zhou, Wolfg...
Tables are ubiquitous. Unfortunately, no search engine supports table search. In this paper, we propose a novel table specific searching engine, TableSeer, to facilitate the table...
Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems have hundreds of thousands of users sharing petabytes of data, however, their search functionality is limited. In general, query results contain...