In this paper, we attempt to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of query-dependent link-based ranking algorithms such as HITS, MAX and SALSA. All these ranking algorith...
With the overwhelming number of reports on similar events originating from different sources on the web, it is often hard, using existing web search paradigms, to find the origi...
Temporal expressions, such as between 1992 and 2000, are frequent across many kinds of documents. Text retrieval, though, treats them as common terms, thus ignoring their inherent...
Irem Arikan, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Klaus Berberich
The rapid globalization of Wikipedia is generating a parallel, multi-lingual corpus of unprecedented scale. Pages for the same topic in many different languages emerge both as a r...
We study the problem of answering ambiguous web queries in a setting where there exists a taxonomy of information, and that both queries and documents may belong to more than one ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Alan Halverso...