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2011
ACM
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2011
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The ability to aggregate huge volumes of queries over a large population of users allows search engines to build precise models for a variety of query-assistance features such as ...
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
2011
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Modeling a user’s click-through behavior in click logs is a challenging task due to the well-known position bias problem. Recent advances in click models have adopted the examin...
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2011
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12 years 11 months ago
2011
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Auctions are widely used on the Web. Applications range from internet advertising to platforms such as eBay. In most of these applications the auctions in use are single/multi-ite...
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2011
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12 years 11 months ago
2011
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Computing the degree of semantic relatedness of words is a key functionality of many language applications such as search, clustering, and disambiguation. Previous approaches to c...
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2011
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12 years 11 months ago
2011
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Malicious web pages that host drive-by-download exploits have become a popular means for compromising hosts on the Internet and, subsequently, for creating large-scale botnets. In...
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2011
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2011
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This paper studies the problem of discovering and comparing geographical topics from GPS-associated documents. GPSassociated documents become popular with the pervasiveness of loc...
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2011
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12 years 11 months ago
2011
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An object on the Semantic Web is likely to be denoted with multiple URIs by different parties. Object coreference resolution is to identify “equivalent” URIs that denote the ...
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
2011
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Accessing online information from various data sources has become a necessary part of our everyday life. Unfortunately such information is not always trustworthy, as different sou...
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2011
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12 years 11 months ago
2011
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This paper uses the URL word breaking task as an example to elaborate what we identify as crucialin designingstatistical natural language processing (NLP) algorithmsfor Web scale ...
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
2011
ACM
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...