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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
DEBU
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Searching RDF Graphs with SPARQL and Keywords
The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and the advances in automated information extraction from Web pages enable the construction of large knowledge ba...
Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Ralf Schenkel, Ge...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Measuring semantic similarity between words using web search engines
Semantic similarity measures play important roles in information retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Previous work in semantic web-related applications such as community mi...
Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuk...
WSDM
2010
ACM
188views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Anatomy of the Long Tail: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Tastes
The success of "infinite-inventory" retailers such as Amazon.com and Netflix has been ascribed to a "long tail" phenomenon. To wit, while the majority of their...
Andrei Z. Broder, Bo Pang, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Sh...
JCIT
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
CT-Rank: A Time-aware Ranking Algorithm for Web Search
Time plays important roles in Web search, because most Web pages contain time information and a lot of Web queries are time-related. However, traditional search engines such as Go...
Peiquan Jin, Xiaowen Li, Hong Chen, Lihua Yue