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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Leveraging the Web for automatically generating indexable and browsable keywords for speech files
This paper presents a method for generating indexable and browsable keyword metadata from ASR transcripts by leveraging the Web. Search engine queries are built from an ASR transc...
Kishan Thambiratnam, Gang Li, Sha Meng, Frank Seid...
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
On the Weakenesses of Correlation
The correlation of the result lists provided by search engines is fundamental and it has deep and multidisciplinary ramifications. Here, we present automatic and unsupervised met...
Paolo D'Alberto, Ali Dasdan
COLING
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A Novel Method for Bilingual Web Page Acquisition from Search Engine Web Records
A new approach has been developed for acquiring bilingual web pages from the result pages of search engines, which is composed of two challenging tasks. The first task is to detec...
Yanhui Feng, Yu Hong, Zhenxiang Yan, Jian-Min Yao,...
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Three sequential positions of query repair in interactions with internet search engines
Internet search engines display understanding or misunderstanding of user intent in and through the particular batches of results they retrieve and their perceived relevance. Yet ...
Robert J. Moore, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Raj Gopal...
ADC
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Building a dynamic classifier for large text data collections
Due to the lack of in-built tools to navigate the web, people have to use external solutions to find information. The most popular of these are search engines and web directories....
Pavel Kalinov, Bela Stantic, Abdul Sattar
ICIW
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Using Propagation of Distrust to Find Untrustworthy Web Neighborhoods
Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. Bu...
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas
IC
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Usage Number of Pages Found by Search Engines for Business Analytics
- In this paper, we describe the usage of number of web pages found by search engines for business analysis. To realize this approach we created the GoogMeter application (www.goog...
Alexandre Zolotovitski, Richard Castro
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Using Word-Sense Disambiguation Methods to Classify Web Queries by Intent
Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...
Emily Pitler, Ken Ward Church
WEBI
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Effects of Query Bursts on Web Search
A query burst is a period of heightened interest of users on a topic which yields a higher frequency of the search queries related to it. In this paper we examine the behavior of s...
Ilija Subasic, Carlos Castillo
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Using local precision to compare search engines in consumer health information retrieval
We have conducted a user study to evaluate several generalist and health-specific search engines on health information retrieval. Users evaluated the relevance of the top 30 docum...
Carla Teixeira Lopes, Cristina Ribeiro