We present a method for constructing, maintaining and consulting a database of proper nouns. We describe noun phrases composed of a proper noun and/or a description of a human occ...
Software engineering is plagued by problems associated with unreliable cost estimates. This paper introduces an approach to sensitivity analysis for requirements engineering. It u...
Search engines are playing a more and more important role in discovering information nowadays. Due to limitations of time-consuming, network bandwidth and hardwares, we cannot obt...
We present Aardvark, a social search engine. With Aardvark, users ask a question, either by instant message, email, web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the que...
Recent studies show that a majority of Web page accesses are referred by search engines. In this paper we study the widespread use of Web search engines and its impact on the ecol...