This paper addresses the desktop search problem by considering various techniques for ranking results of a search query over the file system. First, basic ranking techniques, whic...
More and more RDF data have been published online to be consumed. Ordinary Web users also expect to experience more intelligent services promised by the Semantic Web, such as objec...
This work treats the problem of error-resilient DNA searching via oblivious evaluation of finite automata, formulated as follows: a client has a DNA sequence, and a service provid...
Constraint satisfaction and propositional satisfiability problems are often solved using backtracking search. Previous studies have shown that portfolios of backtracking algorith...
We present a document expansion approach that uses Conditional Random Field (CRF) segmentation to automatically extract salient phrases from ad titles. We then supplement the ad d...