Duplicate URLs have brought serious troubles to the whole pipeline of a search engine, from crawling, indexing, to result serving. URL normalization is to transform duplicate URLs...
Tao Lei, Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Yan Ke, Xiaodon...
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Traditional relation extraction methods require pre-specified relations and relation-specific human-tagged examples. Bootstrapping systems significantly reduce the number of tr...
Jun Zhu, Zaiqing Nie, Xiaojiang Liu, Bo Zhang, Ji-...
As we move from a Web of data to a Web of services, enhancing the capabilities of the current Web search engines with effective and efficient techniques for Web services retrieva...
We consider the problem of monitoring spatial phenomena, such as road speeds on a highway, using wireless sensors with limited battery life. A central question is to decide where ...
Andreas Krause, Ram Rajagopal, Anupam Gupta, Carlo...