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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...