COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
In this paper we propose a completely unsupervised method for open-domain entity extraction and clustering over query logs. The underlying hypothesis is that classes defined by mi...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Within the larger area of automatic acquisition of knowledge from the Web, we introduce a method for extracting relevant attributes, or quantifiable properties, for various class...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Traditional research on spelling correction in natural language processing and information retrieval literature mostly relies on pre-defined lexicons to detect spelling errors. Bu...
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Methods for Web link analysis and authority ranking such as PageRank are based on the assumption that a user endorses a Web page when creating a hyperlink to this page. There is a...
INFOSCALE
2007
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Large-scale Parallel Web Search Engines (WSEs) needs to adopt a strategy for partitioning the inverted index among a set of parallel server nodes. In this paper we are interested ...
DEXA
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Query recommendation suggests related queries for search engine users when they are not satisfied with the results of an initial input query, thus assisting users in improving sear...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Researchers investigating personalization techniques for Web Information Retrieval face a challenge; that the data required to perform evaluations, namely query logs and clickthro...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
We review a query log of hundreds of millions of queries that constitute the total query traffic for an entire week of a generalpurpose commercial web search service. Previously, ...