Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...
Id: trecvid2008.tex 197 2008-10-23 13:28:48Z alyr Date: 2008-10-23 15:28:48 +0200 (Thu, 23 Oct 2008) Type Run Description MAP/mean infAP HLF Official H utcwiprimw146 Our prelimina...
Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Arjen P. de Vries, Hen...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
We consider sums of functions of subtrees of a random binary search tree, and obtain general laws of large numbers and central limit theorems. These sums correspond to random recur...