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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Understanding user's query intent with wikipedia
Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Discovering user profiles
In this paper we describe techniques for the discovery and construction of user profiles. Leveraging from the emergent data web, our system addresses the problem of sparseness of ...
Riddhiman Ghosh, Mohamed Dekhil
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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Raise semantics at the user level for dynamic and interactive SOA-based portals
In this paper, we describe the fully dynamic semantic portal we implemented, integrating Semantic Web technologies and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The goals of the portal...
Jean-Sébastien Brunner, Patrick Gatellier
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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Interactive search in XML data
In a traditional keyword-search system in XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant subtrees. In the case where the user has limi...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Lizhu Zhou
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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Playful tagging: folksonomy generation using online games
Collaborative Tagging is a powerful method to create folksonomies that can be used to grasp/filter user preferences or enhance web search. Recent research has shown that depending...
Markus Krause, Hidir Aras
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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Crosslanguage blog mining and trend visualisation
People use weblogs to express thoughts, present ideas and share knowledge, therefore weblogs are extraordinarily valuable resources, amongs others, for trend analysis. Trends are ...
Andreas Juffinger, Elisabeth Lex
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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic question recommendation for question answering communities
User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...
Mingcheng Qu, Guang Qiu, Xiaofei He, Cheng Zhang, ...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Search shortcuts: driving users towards their goals
Giving suggestions to users of Web-based services is a common practice aimed at enhancing their navigation experience. Major Web Search Engines usually provide Suggestions under t...
Ranieri Baraglia, Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, ...
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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient application placement in a dynamic hosting platform
Web hosting providers are increasingly looking into dynamic hosting to reduce costs and improve the performance of their platforms. Instead of provisioning fixed resources to each...
Zakaria Al-Qudah, Hussein A. Alzoubi, Mark Allman,...
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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Constructing folksonomies from user-specified relations on flickr
Automatic folksonomy construction from tags has attracted much attention recently. However, inferring hierarchical relations between concepts from tags has a drawback in that it i...
Anon Plangprasopchok, Kristina Lerman