When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...
In automated text categorization, given a small number of labeled documents, it is very challenging, if not impossible, to build a reliable classifier that is able to achieve high...
Zenglin Xu, Rong Jin, Kaizhu Huang, Michael R. Lyu...
Web textual advertising can be interpreted as a search problem over the corpus of ads available for display in a particular context. In contrast to conventional information retrie...
Andrei Z. Broder, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Marcus F...
Many different ranking algorithms based on content and context have been used in web search engines to find pages based on a user query. Furthermore, to achieve better performance ...