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COLING
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Utilizing User-input Contextual Terms for Query Disambiguation
Precision-oriented search results such as those typically returned by the major search engines are vulnerable to issues of polysemy. When the same term refers to different things,...
Byron J. Gao, David C. Anastasiu, Xing Jiang
VLDB
1994
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo
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MTA
2007
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14 years 12 months ago
Flexible integration of multimedia sub-queries with qualitative preferences
Complex multimedia queries, aiming to retrieve from large databases those objects that best match the query specification, are usually processed by splitting them into a set of m ...
Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Vincent Oria, M. ...
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WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Answering approximate queries over autonomous web databases
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...
Xiangfu Meng, Z. M. Ma, Li Yan
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WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Sampling high-quality clicks from noisy click data
Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...
Adish Singla, Ryen W. White