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WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The web around the corner: augmenting the browser with gps
As programmable mobile devices (such as high-end cellular phones and Personal Digital Assistants) became widely adopted, users ask for Internet access on-the-road. While upcoming ...
Davide Carboni, Andrea Piras, Stefano Sanna, Sylva...
TREC
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Experiments with Web QA System and TREC 2004 Questions
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Efficient Update of Indexes for Dynamically Changing Web Documents
Recent work on incremental crawling has enabled the indexed document collection of a search engine to be more synchronized with the changing World Wide Web. However, this synchron...
Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan, Jeffrey...
KDD
2007
ACM
189views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Corroborate and learn facts from the web
The web contains lots of interesting factual information about entities, such as celebrities, movies or products. This paper describes a robust bootstrapping approach to corrobora...
Shubin Zhao, Jonathan Betz