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WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Discovering user profiles
In this paper we describe techniques for the discovery and construction of user profiles. Leveraging from the emergent data web, our system addresses the problem of sparseness of ...
Riddhiman Ghosh, Mohamed Dekhil
CLEF
2007
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
Adapting QA Components to Mine Answers in Speech Transcripts
Abstract. The paper describes QAst-v1 a robust question answering system for answering factoid questions in manual and automatic transcriptions of speech. The system is an adaptati...
Günter Neumann, Rui Wang
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Named entity normalization in user generated content
Named entity recognition is important for semantically oriented retrieval tasks, such as question answering, entity retrieval, biomedical retrieval, trend detection, and event and...
Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Maarten Mar...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Quality is in the eye of the beholder: towards user-centric web-databases
The proliferation of database-driven web sites (or web-databases) has brought upon a plethora of applications where both Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Data (QoD) are of ...
Huiming Qu, Jie Xu, Alexandros Labrinidis
PUC
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Design and evaluation of systems to support interaction capture and retrieval
Although many recent systems have been built to support Information Capture and Retrieval (ICR), these have not generally been successful. This paper presents studies that evaluate...
Steve Whittaker, Simon Tucker, Kumutha Swampillai,...