Methods for Web link analysis and authority ranking such as PageRank are based on the assumption that a user endorses a Web page when creating a hyperlink to this page. There is a...
Abstract. Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to apply simple techniques to large amounts of text. Esfinge participated last year in the mono...
In business, the retrieval of up-to-date, or fresh, information is very important. It is difficult for conventional search engines based on a centralized architecture to retrieve ...
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...
Abstract. In the rapidly evolving and growing environment of the internet, web site owners aim to maximize interest for their web site. In this article we propose a model, which co...