In contrast with the current Web search methods that essentially do document-level ranking and retrieval, we are exploring a new paradigm to enable Web search at the object level....
Zaiqing Nie, Yuanzhi Zhang, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying ...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
This paper describes in detail the combination of NLP methods applied to the treatment of logic forms in the topic processing and statistical methods applied to the search engine ...
During the last decade national archives, libraries, museums and companies started to make their records, books and files electronically available. In order to allow efficient ac...
Andreas Stoffel, David Spretke, Henrik Kinnemann, ...