This work presents the use of click graphs in improving query intent classifiers, which are critical if vertical search and general-purpose search services are to be offered in a ...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Collectors of confidential data, such as governmental agencies, hospitals, or search engine providers, can be pressured to permit data to be used for purposes other than that for ...
Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Toniann Pitassi, Guy N. ...
Abstract—Motivated by neutrality observed in natural evolution often redundant encodings are used in evolutionary algorithms. Many experimental studies have been carried out on t...
Benjamin Doerr, Michael Gnewuch, Nils Hebbinghaus,...
Abstract. We define a language for Web services contracts as a parallelfree fragment of ccs and we study a natural notion of compliance between clients and services in terms of th...