In this paper, a method for automatic classification of Hidden-Web databases is addressed. In our approach, the classification tree for Hidden Web databases is constructed by tailo...
In order to let software programs gain full benefit from semi-structured web sources, wrapper programs must be built to provide a “machine-readable” view over them. A signific...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...