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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Generic and effective semi-structured keyword search
Current semi-structured keyword search and natural language query processing systems use ad hoc approaches to take advantage of structural information. Although intuitive, they ar...
Arash Termehchy, Marianne Winslett
WWW
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A probabilistic model based approach for blended search
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Zheng Chen
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A study of relevance propagation for web search
Different from traditional information retrieval, both content and structure are critical to the success of Web information retrieval. In recent years, many relevance propagation ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Zheng Chen, W...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Organizing and searching the world wide web of facts -- step two: harnessing the wisdom of the crowds
As part of a large effort to acquire large repositories of facts from unstructured text on the Web, a seed-based framework for textual information extraction allows for weakly sup...
Marius Pasca