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RR
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Rule-Based Approach for Reasoning About Collaboration Between Smart Web Services
We present a vision of smart, goal-oriented web services that reason about other services’ policies and evaluate the possibility of future interactions. We assume web services wh...
Marco Alberti, Federico Chesani, Marco Gavanelli, ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum
VLDB
2002
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
I/O-Conscious Data Preparation for Large-Scale Web Search Engines
Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...
Maxim Lifantsev, Tzi-cker Chiueh
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed Placement of Service Facilities in Large-Scale Networks
Abstract— The effectiveness of service provisioning in largescale networks is highly dependent on the number and location of service facilities deployed at various hosts. The cla...
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Konstant...