To take the first step beyond keyword-based search toward entity-based search, suitable token spans ("spots") on documents must be identified as references to real-world...
Sayali Kulkarni, Amit Singh, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, ...
Abstract. The requirements for effective search and management of the WWW are stronger than ever. Currently Web documents are classified based on their content not taking into acco...
Maria Halkidi, Benjamin Nguyen, Iraklis Varlamis, ...
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
We propose a new method to measure “visualness” of concepts, that is, what extent concepts have visual characteristics. To know which concept has visually discriminative power...
Clustering web search engine results for ambiguous keyword searches poses unique challenges. First, we show that one cannot readily import the frequency based feature ranking to c...