Name ambiguity is a special case of identity uncertainty where one person can be referenced by multiple name variations in different situations or even share the same name with ot...
Yang Song, Jian Huang 0002, Isaac G. Councill, Jia...
This paper presents Adaptive Web Search (AWS), a novel search technique that combines personalized, social, and realtime collaborative search. Preliminary empirical results from a...
Most RDF query languages allow for graph structure search through a conjunction of triples which is typically processed using join operations. A key factor in optimizing joins is ...
Angela Maduko, Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit P. Sheth, Pau...
We consider the problem of online keyword advertising auctions among multiple bidders with limited budgets, and study a natural bidding heuristic in which advertisers attempt to o...
Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Nicole Immorl...
This paper makes an intensive investigation of the application of Bayesian network in sentence retrieval and introduces three Bayesian network based sentence retrieval models with...
Keke Cai, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Kangmiao Liu, Wei ...
Researchers of commercial search engines often collect data using the application programming interface (API) or by "scraping" results from the web user interface (WUI),...
In current web service discovery and subscription, consumers must pay too much time on manually selection and cannot easily benefit from the wide QoS spectrum brought by the proli...
In this paper we study the privacy preservation properties of a specific technique for query log anonymization: tokenbased hashing. In this approach, each query is tokenized, and ...
Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Bo Pang, Andrew Tomkins
Performance evaluation is an important issue in Web search engine researches. Traditional evaluation methods rely on much human efforts and are therefore quite time-consuming. Wit...
Yiqun Liu, Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyu...