Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
The wealth of information contained in the world-wide web has created much interest in systems for integrating information from multiple sites. We describe a universal wrapper mac...
Abstract. This paper describes our approach to the Person Name Disambiguation clustering task in the Third Web People Search Evaluation Campaign(WePS3). The method focuses on two a...
This paper addresses the various facets of emergent semantics in content retrieval systems such as Knowledge Sifter, an architecture and system based on the use of specialized agen...
Web information is increasingly used as evidence in solving various problems, including record matching. However, acquiring web-based resources is slow and can incur other access c...