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WWW
2002
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Assessing the scenic route: measuring the value of search trails in web logs
Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result...
Ryen W. White, Jeff Huang
EDBT
2008
ACM
128views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
16 years 7 months ago
Processing transitive nearest-neighbor queries in multi-channel access environments
Wireless broadcast is an efficient way for information dissemination due to its good scalability [10]. Existing works typically assume mobile devices, such as cell phones and PDAs...
Xiao Zhang, Wang-Chien Lee, Prasenjit Mitra, Baihu...
VLDB
2005
ACM
109views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
16 years 7 months ago
Model-based approximate querying in sensor networks
Abstract Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that "the sensornet is a database" i...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...
ICMCS
2005
IEEE
114views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2005»
16 years 13 days ago
Self Configurable Queries for Digital Image Libraries
Since multimedia information is characterized by motley types of media with different properties, multimedia content retrieval in digital libraries requires dynamic reconfigurable...
Panagiotis Karagiannis, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Geor...