With an increasing number of Web services providing similar functionalities, Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selection of the best available servic...
Ziqiang Xu, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Farhana ...
How can we cull the facts we need from the overwhelming mass of information and misinformation that is the Web? The TextRunner extraction engine represents one approach, in which ...
— We are currently witnessing an increasing interest in the use of the web as an information and knowledge source. Much of the information sought after in the web is in this case...
Heiko Stoermer, Themis Palpanas, George Giannakopo...
Trust is an integral part of the Semantic Web architecture. Most prior work on trust focuses on entity-centered issues such as authentication and reputation and does not take into...
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...