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2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A scalable machine-learning approach for semi-structured named entity recognition
Named entity recognition studies the problem of locating and classifying parts of free text into a set of predefined categories. Although extensive research has focused on the de...
Utku Irmak, Reiner Kraft
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
RankCompete: simultaneous ranking and clustering of web photos
With the explosive growth of digital cameras and online media, it has become crucial to design efficient methods that help users browse and search large image collections. The rec...
Liangliang Cao, Andrey Del Pozo, Xin Jin, Jiebo Lu...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Semantic lexicon adaptation for use in query interpretation
We describe improvements to the use of semantic lexicons by a state-of-the-art query interpretation system powering a major search engine. We successfully compute concept label im...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Patrick Pantel, Gilad Mishne
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2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Measurement-calibrated graph models for social network experiments
Access to realistic, complex graph datasets is critical to research on social networking systems and applications. Simulations on graph data provide critical evaluation of new sys...
Alessandra Sala, Lili Cao, Christo Wilson, Robert ...
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2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Alhambra: a system for creating, enforcing, and testing browser security policies
Alhambra is a browser-based system designed to enforce and test web browser security policies. At the core of Alhambra is a policyenhanced browser supporting fine-grain security ...
Shuo Tang, Chris Grier, Onur Aciiçmez, Samu...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Automatic extraction of clickable structured web contents for name entity queries
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Xiao Li, Yi-Chin Tu
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Sampling high-quality clicks from noisy click data
Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...
Adish Singla, Ryen W. White
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Exploring web scale language models for search query processing
It has been widely observed that search queries are composed in a very different style from that of the body or the title of a document. Many techniques explicitly accounting for...
Jian Huang 0002, Jianfeng Gao, Jiangbo Miao, Xiaol...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Exploring searcher interactions for distinguishing types of commercial intent
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
HTTP database connector (HDBC): RESTful access to relational databases
Relational databases hold a vast quantity of information and making them accessible to the web is an big challenge. There is a need to make these databases accessible with as litt...
Alexandros Marinos, Erik Wilde, Jiannan Lu