Performing simple keyword-based search has long been the only way to access information. But for a truly comprehensive search on multimedia data, this approach is no longer sucien...
Abstract This paper describes efforts to extend educational descriptions of learning objects to enable semantic search for suitable resources held within digital libraries and cybe...
Mark Gahegan, Ritesh Agrawal, Tawan Banchuen, Davi...
We consider the problem of sampling URLs uniformly at random from the Web. A tool for sampling URLs uniformly can be used to estimate various properties of Web pages, such as the ...
Monika Rauch Henzinger, Allan Heydon, Michael Mitz...
Numerical design optimization algorithms are highly sensitive to the particular formulation of the optimization problems they are given. The formulation of the search space, the o...
Thomas Ellman, John Keane, Takahiro Murata, Mark S...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...