This paper identifies and explores the problem of seed selection in a web-scale crawler. We argue that seed selection is not a trivial but very important problem. Selecting proper...
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
In this paper we propose algorithms for combining and ranking answers from distributed heterogeneous data sources in the context of a multi-ontology Question Answering task. Our pr...
Sponsored search is one of the enabling technologies for today's Web search engines. It corresponds to matching and showing ads related to the user query on the search engine...
Although Web search engines have become information gateways to the Internet, for queries containing technical terms, search results often contain pages that are difficult to be ...