Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
Many applications in analytical domains often have the need to "connect the dots" i.e., query about the structure of data. In bioinformatics for example, it is typical t...
We address the problem of integrating objects from a source taxonomy into a master taxonomy. This problem is not only currently pervasive on the web, but also important to the eme...