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AIPS
2004
15 years 7 months ago
An Empirical Analysis of Some Heuristic Features for Local Search in LPG
LPG is a planner that performed very well in the last International planning competition (2002). The system is based on a stochastic local search procedure, and it incorporates se...
Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Entity relation discovery from web tables and links
The World-Wide Web consists not only of a huge number of unstructured texts, but also a vast amount of valuable structured data. Web tables [2] are a typical type of structured in...
Cindy Xide Lin, Bo Zhao, Tim Weninger, Jiawei Han,...
IR
2006
15 years 6 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Why searchers switch: understanding and predicting engine switching rationales
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anders...
ACSC
2004
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
In-Place versus Re-Build versus Re-Merge: Index Maintenance Strategies for Text Retrieval Systems
Indexes are the key technology underpinning efficient text search. A range of algorithms have been developed for fast query evaluation and for index creation, but update algorithm...
Nicholas Lester, Justin Zobel, Hugh E. Williams