ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
2011
We use search engine results to address a particularly difficult cross-domain language processing task, the adaptation of named entity recognition (NER) from news text to web que...
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
2010
Springer
Given a set of keyphrases, we analyze how Web queries with these phrases can be formed that, taken altogether, return a specified number of hits. The use case of this problem is a ...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2000
ACM
Continuous queries are persistent queries that allow users to receive new results when they become available. While continuous query systems can transform a passive web into an ac...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
Accurate topical categorization of user queries allows for increased effectiveness, efficiency, and revenue potential in general-purpose web search systems. Such categorization be...
PODS
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2002
ACM
We introduce and investigate a distributed computation model for querying the Web. Web queries are computed by interacting automata running at different nodes in the Web. The auto...
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 5 days ago
2007
ACM
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...