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WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Providing ranked relevant results for web database queries
Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...
Ullas Nambiar, Subbarao Kambhampati
LATIN
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Complementation of Rational Sets on Scattered Linear Orderings of Finite Rank
In a preceding paper [6], automata have been introduced for words indexed by linear orderings. These automata are a generalization of automata for finite, infinite, bi-infinite...
Olivier Carton, Chloe Rispal
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
A Novel Re-ranking Approach Inspired by Quantum Measurement
Abstract. Quantum theory (QT) has recently been employed to advance the theory of information retrieval (IR). A typical method, namely the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QP...
Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou
INTERACT
2003
15 years 7 months ago
A Granular Approach to Web Search Result Presentation
: In this paper we propose and evaluate interfaces for presenting the results of web searches. Sentences, taken from the top retrieved documents, are used as fine-grained represent...
Ryen W. White