Keyword-based search in relational databases allows users to discover relevant information without knowing the database schema or using complicated queries. However, such searches...
Collaborative filtering (CF) allows the preferences of multiple users to be pooled to make recommendations regarding unseen products. We consider in this paper the problem of onl...
Craig Boutilier, Richard S. Zemel, Benjamin M. Mar...
Management and retrieval of large volumes of text can be expensive in both space and time. Moreover, the range of document sizes in a large collection such as trec presents difficu...
Alistair Moffat, Ron Sacks-Davis, Ross Wilkinson, ...
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), makin...