Web searches tend to be short and ambiguous. It is therefore not surprising that Web query disambiguation is an actively researched topic. To provide a personalized experience for ...
This paper presents CoCo, a system that automates web tasks on a user's behalf through an interactive conversational interface. Given a short command such as "get road c...
Tessa Lau, Julian A. Cerruti, Guillermo Manzato, M...
We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
With the increasing storage capacity of personal computing devices, the problems of information overload and information fragmentation become apparent on users’ desktops. For the...
: AWAIT: Efficient Overload Management for Busy Multi-tier Web Services under Bursty Workloads Lei Lu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vittoria de Nitto Persone, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirn...
Lei Lu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vittoria de Nitto Pers...