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WSDM
2012
ACM
207views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
14 years 2 months ago
Domain bias in web search
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
ICDE
2012
IEEE
216views Database» more  ICDE 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
Load Balancing in MapReduce Based on Scalable Cardinality Estimates
—MapReduce has emerged as a popular tool for distributed and scalable processing of massive data sets and is increasingly being used in e-science applications. Unfortunately, the...
Benjamin Gufler, Nikolaus Augsten, Angelika Reiser...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
170views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
16 years 8 months ago
Semantics of Ranking Queries for Probabilistic Data and Expected Ranks
Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Graham Cormode, Feifei Li, Ke Yi
ICDE
2006
IEEE
207views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Automatic Sales Lead Generation from Web Data
Speed to market is critical to companies that are driven by sales in a competitive market. The earlier a potential customer can be approached in the decision making process of a p...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sachindra Joshi, Sumit Negi, ...
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Extraction and search of chemical formulae in text documents on the web
Often scientists seek to search for articles on the Web related to a particular chemical. When a scientist searches for a chemical formula using a search engine today, she gets ar...
Bingjun Sun, Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...