With more and more commercial activities moving onto the Internet, people tend to purchase what they need through Internet or conduct some online research before the actual transac...
We exemplify an optimization criterion for divide-and-conquer algorithms with a technique called generic competitive graph search. The technique is then applied to solve two probl...
We report on the large-scale acquisition of class attributes with and without the use of lists of representative instances, as well as the discovery of unary attributes, such as t...
Clickthrough on search results have been successfully used to infer user interest and preferences, but are often noisy and potentially ambiguous. We explore the potential of a com...
Today’s search engines retrieve tens of thousands of web pages in response to fairly simple query articulations. These pages are retrieved on the basis of the query terms occurr...
Richong Zhang, Michael A. Shepherd, Jack Duffy, Ca...