In a higher level task such as clustering of web results or word sense disambiguation, knowledge of all possible distinct concepts in which an ambiguous word can be expressed woul...
In order to minimize redundancy and optimize coverage of multiple user interests, search engines and recommender systems aim to diversify their set of results. To date, these dive...
Finding out about a topic online can be time consuming. It involves visiting multiple news sites, encyclopedia entries, video repositories and other resources while discarding irr...
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Heterogeneous entities or objects are very common and are usually interrelated with each other in many scenarios. For example, typical Web search activities involve multiple types...
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...