In this paper, we consider the possibility of altering the PageRank of web pages, from an administrator's point of view, through the modification of the PageRank equation. It...
Interactive configuration guides a user searching through a large combinatorial space of solutions to a system of constraints. We investigate a class of very expressive underlying...
Erik Roland van der Meer, Andrzej Wasowski, Henrik...
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
We investigate the problem of learning to rank for document retrieval from the perspective of learning with multiple objective functions. We present solutions to two open problems...
Krysta Marie Svore, Maksims Volkovs, Christopher J...
We describe Web-a-Where, a system for associating geography with Web pages. Web-a-Where locates mentions of places and determines the place each name refers to. In addition, it as...