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WEBI
2007
Springer
16 years 16 days ago
Measuring Semantic Similarity between Named Entities by Searching the Web Directory
The importance of named entities in information retrieval and knowledge management has recently brought interest in characterizing semantic relationships between entities. In this...
Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum
GIR
2008
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Geographic features in web search retrieval
We conduct large-scale search engine relevance experiments, using the 12% of queries that contain placenames, matching the placenames to places in the documents, and examining the...
Rosie Jones, Ahmed Hassan, Fernando Diaz
EMNLP
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Improving Web Search Relevance with Semantic Features
Most existing information retrieval (IR) systems do not take much advantage of natural language processing (NLP) techniques due to the complexity and limited observed effectivenes...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Gilad Mishne, Xing Wei, Ben...
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Identifying ambiguous queries in web search
It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...
Ruihua Song, Zhenxiao Luo, Ji-Rong Wen, Yong Yu, H...
GROUP
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Searching for reputable source code on the web
Looking for source code on the Web is a common practice among software developers. Previous research has shown that developers use social cues over technical cues to evaluate sour...
Rosalva E. Gallardo-Valencia, Phitchayaphong Tanti...