Link Analysis has been a popular and widely used Web mining technique, especially in the area of Web search. Various ranking schemes based on link analysis have been proposed, of ...
This paper address the problem of entity linking. Specifically, given an entity mentioned in unstructured texts, the task is to link this entity with an entry stored in the existi...
Knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and automated extraction methods like those of DBpedia enable the construction of large machine-processible knowledge bases with relat...
Query auto-completion (QAC) is a common feature in modern search engines. High quality QAC candidates enhance search experience by saving users time that otherwise would be spent ...
The rise of social interactions on the Web requires developing new methods of information organization and discovery. To that end, we propose a generative community-based probabil...