Abstract. Complementary to hypertext navigation, classic information retrieval is broadly used to find information on the World Wide Web and on Web-based systems. Among these there...
We describe a system for extracting mentions of terms such as company and product names, in a large and noisy corpus of documents, such as the World Wide Web. Since natural langua...
Einat Amitay, Rani Nelken, Wayne Niblack, Ron Siva...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...
Recent years have witnessed an explosion in the availability of news articles on the World Wide Web. Although searchengines’ algorithms have made it easier to locate these docum...