We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Abstract. Fusion queries search for information integrated from distributed, autonomous sources over the Internet. We investigate techniques for e cient processing of fusion querie...
Information extraction deals with extracting entities (such as people,organizations or locations) and named relations between entities (such as "People born-in Country")...
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Metasearch engines submit the user query to several underlying search engines and then merge their retrieved results to generate a single list that is more effective to the users&...