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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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16 years 7 months ago
Efficient Computation of Diverse Query Results
We study the problem of efficiently computing diverse query results in online shopping applications, where users specify queries through a form interface that allows a mix of stru...
Erik Vee, Utkarsh Srivastava, Jayavel Shanmugasund...
VLDB
2002
ACM
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15 years 5 months ago
Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
CLEF
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
LogCLEF 2009: The CLEF 2009 Multilingual Logfile Analysis Track Overview
Log data constitute a relevant aspect in the evaluation process of the quality of a search engine and the quality of a multilingual search service; log data can be used to study t...
Thomas Mandl, Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di ...
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,...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Towards breaking the quality curse.: a web-querying approach to web people search
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...