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ICDE
2010
IEEE
202views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
16 years 6 months ago
Ranked Queries over Sources with Boolean Query Interfaces without Ranking Support
Many online or local data sources provide powerful querying mechanisms but limited ranking capabilities. For instance, PubMed allows users to submit highly expressive Boolean keywo...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Vagelis Hristidis, Yuheng...
NAACL
2003
15 years 7 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Matching independent global constraints for composite web services
Service discovery employs matching techniques to select services by comparing their descriptions against user constraints. Semantic-based matching approaches achieve higher recall...
Nalaka Gooneratne, Zahir Tari
WWW
2002
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
KDD
2009
ACM
152views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
TANGENT: a novel, 'Surprise me', recommendation algorithm
Most of recommender systems try to find items that are most relevant to the older choices of a given user. Here we focus on the "surprise me" query: A user may be bored ...
Kensuke Onuma, Hanghang Tong, Christos Faloutsos