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COLING
2008
15 years 3 months ago
Translating Queries into Snippets for Improved Query Expansion
User logs of search engines have recently been applied successfully to improve various aspects of web search quality. In this paper, we will apply pairs of user queries and snippe...
Stefan Riezler, Yi Liu, Alexander Vasserman
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Towards natural question guided search
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
CoSense: enhancing sensemaking for collaborative web search
Making sense of the information found during an investigational Web search task can be daunting. With the recent emergence of tools to support collaborative Web search, the associ...
Sharoda A. Paul, Meredith Ringel Morris
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Mining for personal name aliases on the web
We propose a novel approach to find aliases of a given name from the web. We exploit a set of known names and their aliases as training data and extract lexical patterns that conv...
Danushka Bollegala, Taiki Honma, Yutaka Matsuo, Mi...
CORR
2012
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Optimal Threshold Control by the Robots of Web Search Engines with Obsolescence of Documents
A typical web search engine consists of three principal parts: crawling engine, indexing engine, and searching engine. The present work aims to optimize the performance of the cra...
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Alexander N. Dudin, Valent...