This paper presents an architectural design and evaluation result of an efficient Web-crawling system. The design involves a fully distributed architecture, a URL allocating algor...
Intention recognition has significant applications in ambient intelligence, for example in assisted living and care of the elderly, in games and in intrusion and other crime detec...
Abstract. The question answering systems are considered the next generation of search engines. This paper focuses on the first step of this process, which is to search for relevant...
We propose CCRank, the first parallel algorithm for learning to rank, targeting simultaneous improvement in learning accuracy and efficiency. CCRank is based on cooperative coev...
Shuaiqiang Wang, Byron J. Gao, Ke Wang, Hady Wiraw...
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...