Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...
The problem of group ranking, a.k.a. rank aggregation, has been studied in contexts varying from sports, to multi-criteria decision making, to machine learning, to ranking web pag...
Maintaining and extending large thesauri is an important challenge facing digital libraries and IT businesses alike. In this paper we describe a method building on and extending ex...
Robert Meusel, Mathias Niepert, Kai Eckert, Heiner...
We propose a novel approach to find aliases of a given name from the web. We exploit a set of known names and their aliases as training data and extract lexical patterns that conv...