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2008
ACM
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Cm-pmi: improved web-based association measure with contextual label matching
WebPMI is a popular web-based association measure to evaluate the semantic similarity between two queries (i.e. words or entities) by leveraging search results returned by search ...
Xiaojun Wan
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Online auctions efficiency: a survey of ebay auctions
Online auctions have become a pervasive transaction mechanism for e-commerce. As the largest online marketplace in the world, eBay is an attractive case study that enables the stu...
Wenyan Hu, Alvaro Bolivar
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Keyword extraction for contextual advertisement
As the largest online marketplace, eBay strives to promote its inventory throughout the Web via different types of online advertisement. Contextually relevant links to eBay assets...
Xiaoyuan Wu, Alvaro Bolivar
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Reasoning about similarity queries in text retrieval tasks
In many text retrieval tasks, it is highly desirable to obtain a "similarity profile" of the document collection for a given query. We propose sampling-based techniques ...
Xiaohui Yu, Yang Liu
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Making BPEL flexible: adapting in the context of coordination constraints using WS-BPEL
While WS-BPEL is emerging as the prominent language for modeling executable business processes, it provides limited support for designing flexible processes. An important need of ...
Yunzhou Wu, Prashant Doshi
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Resolving Person Names in Web People Search
Disambiguating person names in a set of documents (such as a set of web pages returned in response to a person name) is a key task for the presentation of results and the automatic...
Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Context-based Semantic Mediation in Web Service Communities
Communities gather Web services that provide a common functionality, acting as an intermediate layer between end users and Web services. On the one hand, they provide a single endp...
Michael Mrissa, Stefan Dietze, Philippe Thiran, Ch...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
On the Effect of Group Structures on Ranking Strategies in Folksonomies
Folksonomies have shown interesting potential for improving information discovery and exploration. Recent folksonomy systems investigate on the use of tag assignments, which combi...
Fabian Abel, Nicola Henze, Daniel Krause, Matthias...