We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
Building content-based search tools for feature-rich data has been a challenging problem because feature-rich data such as audio recordings, digital images, and sensor data are in...
Qin Lv, William Josephson, Zhe Wang, Moses Charika...
We present BlogScope (www.blogscope.net), a system for analyzing the Blogosphere. BlogScope is an information discovery and text analysis system that offers a set of unique featur...
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...