The next wave in search technology will be driven by the identification, extraction, and exploitation of real-world entities represented in unstructured textual sources. Search sy...
Tasks recognizing named entities such as products, people names, or locations from documents have recently received significant attention in the literature. Many solutions to thes...
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
In this paper, we continue our investigations of "web spam": the injection of artificially-created pages into the web in order to influence the results from search engin...
Alexandros Ntoulas, Marc Najork, Mark Manasse, Den...
In many Web search applications, similarities between objects of one type (say, queries) can be affected by the similarities between their interrelated objects of another type (sa...