We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
In the context of information retrieval, traditional collection selection algorithms have been widely studied. These algorithms utilize language models, a representation of the co...
Gary A. Monroe, James C. French, Allison L. Powell
Links between web sites can be seen as evidence of a type of emergent collaboration among web site authors. We report here on an empirical investigation into emergent collaboratio...
This paper presents a novel prototype hierarchy based clustering (PHC) framework for the organization of web collections. It solves simultaneously the problem of categorizing web ...
Abstract. When you search for information regarding a particular person on the web, a search engine returns many pages. Some of these pages may be for people with the same name. Ho...