There is a growing consensus that it is desirable to query over the structure implicit in unstructured documents, and that ideally this capability should be provided incrementally...
Eric Chu, Akanksha Baid, Ting Chen, AnHai Doan, Je...
Abstract. For casual web users, a natural language is more accessible than formal query languages. However, understanding of a natural language query is not trivial for computer sy...
Tae-Gil Noh, Yong-Jin Han, Seong-Bae Park, Se-Youn...
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...
Wikipedia infoboxes is an example of a seemingly structured, yet extraordinarily heterogeneous dataset, where any given record has only a tiny fraction of all possible fields. Su...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...