In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
Duplicate URLs have brought serious troubles to the whole pipeline of a search engine, from crawling, indexing, to result serving. URL normalization is to transform duplicate URLs...
Tao Lei, Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Yan Ke, Xiaodon...
—Typical information extraction (IE) systems can be seen as tasks assigning labels to words in a natural language sequence. The performance is restricted by the availability of l...
Yanjun Qi, Pavel Kuksa, Ronan Collobert, Kunihiko ...
Recently, studies with the XCS classifier system on Boolean functions have shown that in certain types of functions simple crossover operators can lead to disruption and, conseque...
The phenomenal growth of video on the web and the increasing sparseness of meta information associated with it forces us to look for signals from the video content for search/info...
Ming Zhao 0003, Jay Yagnik, Hartwig Adam, David Ba...