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SAINT
2008
IEEE
16 years 24 days ago
Creating Location-Based Services by Utilising a Web of Places
We present an open, decentralized, participatory system which realizes location-based services by gently extending the existing World Wide Web. Utilizing a geospatial search engin...
Benedikt Ostermaier, Philipp Bolliger
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
RuralCafe: web search in the rural developing world
The majority of people in rural developing regions do not have access to the World Wide Web. Traditional network connectivity technologies have proven to be prohibitively expensiv...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Jinyang Li
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
CWS: a comparative web search system
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng...
SOCO
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Reasoning about fuzzy temporal information from the web: towards retrieval of historical events
Abstract When searching for information about historical events, queries are naturally formulated using temporal constraints. However, the structured temporal information needed to...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
ICWE
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
An Article Language Model for BBS Search
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), similar to blogs, newsgroups, online forums, etc., are online broadcasting spaces where people can exchange ideas and make announcements. As BBS are b...
Jingfang Xu, Yangbo Zhu, Xing Li