A pressing task during the unification process is to identify a user's vertical search intention based on the user's query. In this paper, we propose a novel method to p...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Weiguo Fan, Qiang Yang, Zheng C...
With the proliferation of data APIs, it is not uncommon that users who have no clear ideas about data APIs will encounter difficulties to build Mashups to satisfy their requiremen...
Bin Lu, Zhaohui Wu, Yuan Ni, Guo Tong Xie, Chunyin...
We tackle the problem of disambiguating entities on the Web. We propose a user-driven scheme where graphs of entities ? represented by globally identifiable declarative artifacts ...
Hermann de Meer, Karl Aberer, Michael Jost, Parisa...
User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...
The combined efforts of human volunteers have recently extracted numerous facts from Wikipedia, storing them as machine-harvestable object-attribute-value triples in Wikipedia inf...