There is an exploding amount of user-generated content on the Web due to the emergence of "Web 2.0" services, such as Blogger, MySpace, Flickr, and del.icio.us. The part...
Ka Cheung Sia, Junghoo Cho, Yun Chi, Belle L. Tsen...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
We describe an evaluation of result set filtering techniques for providing ultra-high precision in the task of presenting related news for general web queries. In this task, the n...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
Location-based services like reminders, electronic graffiti, and tourist guides normally require a custom, location-sensitive database that must be custom-tailored for the applicat...
Traditionally, when one wants to learn about a particular topic, one reads a book or a survey paper. With the rapid expansion of the Web, learning in-depth knowledge about a topic...