It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...
We introduce an event gazetteer which stores and presents “locations in time”. Each event is coded with attributes of event type, location, actor, and beginning and ending tim...
This paper makes three significant extensions to a noisy channel speller designed for standard written text to target the challenging domain of search queries. First, the noisy ch...
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaolong Li, Daniel Micol, Chris Qui...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
To leverage location-related information is useful to get an in-depth perspective on environmental circumstances, traffic situations and/or other problems. To handle the large nu...