This paper is concerned with the problem of question search. In question search, given a question as query, we are to return questions semantically equivalent or close to the quer...
Expert search, in which given a query a ranked list of experts instead of documents is returned, has been intensively studied recently due to its importance in facilitating the ne...
The Web has become the largest information repository over the world. Therefore, effectively and efficiently searching the Web becomes a key challenge. Previous research on Web se...
Unpredictability in the running time of complete search procedures can often be explained by the phenomenon of "heavy-tailed cost distributions", meaning that at any tim...
We present a new algorithm that reduces the space complexity of heuristic search. It is most effective for problem spaces that grow polynomially with problem size, but contain lar...