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2004
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Clustering e-commerce search engines
In this paper, we sketch a method for clustering e-commerce search engines by the type of products/services they sell. This method utilizes the special features of interface pages...
Qian Peng, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, Clement T. Yu
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2004
ACM
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Self-learning web question answering system
While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores
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2004
ACM
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Meaning and the semantic web
The meaning of names (URI references) is a contentious issue in the Semantic Web. Numerous proposals have been given for how to provide meaning for names in the Semantic Web, rang...
Bijan Parsia, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
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2004
ACM
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Distributed location aware web crawling
Distributed crawling has shown that it can overcome important limitations of the today's crawling paradigm. However, the optimal benefits of this approach are usually limited...
Odysseas Papapetrou, George Samaras
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2004
ACM
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Time-based contextualized-news browser (t-cnb)
We propose a new way of browsing contextualized-news articles. Our prototype browser system is called a Time-based ContextualizedNews Browser (T-CNB). The T-CNB concurrently and a...
Akiyo Nadamoto, Katsumi Tanaka
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2004
ACM
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Automatically generating metadata for digital photographs with geographic coordinates
Given location information on digital photographs, we can automatically generate an abundance of photo-related metadata using off-the-shelf and web-based data sources. These metad...
Mor Naaman, Yee Jiun Song, Andreas Paepcke, Hector...
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2004
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A web services architecture for learning object discovery and assembly
Courseware systems are often based on an assembly of different components, addressing the different needs of storage and delivery functionality. The Learning Technology Standard A...
Claus Pahl, Ronan Barrett
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2004
ACM
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Are web pages characterized by color?
When human guess the content of a web page, not only the text on the page but also its appearance is an important factor. However, there have been few studies on the relationship ...
Norifumi Murayama, Suguru Saito, Manabu Okumura
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2004
ACM
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Cooperative middleware specialization for service oriented architectures
Service-oriented architectures (SOA) will provide the basis of the next generation of distributed software systems, and have already gained enormous traction in the industry throu...
Nirmal Mukhi, Ravi B. Konuru, Francisco Curbera
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2004
ACM
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Experiments with persian text compression for web
The increasing importance of Unicode for text encoding implies a possible doubling of data storage space and data transmission time, with a corresponding need for data compression...
Farhad Oroumchian, Ehsan Darrudi, Fattane Taghiyar...