It has been observed that anchor text in web documents is very useful in improving the quality of web text search for some classes of queries. By examining properties of anchor te...
As user demands become increasingly sophisticated, search engines today are competing in more than just returning document results from the Web. One area of competition is providi...
Sixearch.org is a peer application for social, distributed, adaptive Web search, which integrates the Sixearch.org protocol, a topical crawler, a document indexing system, a retri...
Finding information is a problem shared by people and intelligent systems. This paper describes an experiment combining both human and machine aspects in a knowledgebased system t...
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...