Automatically generated HTML, as produced by WYSIWYG programs, typically contains much repetitive and unnecessary markup. This paper identifies aspects of such HTML that may be al...
Reverse skyline queries over uncertain databases have many important applications such as sensor data monitoring and business planning. Due to the existence of uncertainty in many...
With the overwhelming number of reports on similar events originating from different sources on the web, it is often hard, using existing web search paradigms, to find the origi...
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
In this paper, we propose a novel dependency language modeling approach for information retrieval. The approach extends the existing language modeling approach by relaxing the ind...