Planning out maintenance tasks to increase the quality of Web applications can be difficult for a manager. First, it is hard to evaluate the precise effect of a task on quality. S...
Aggregated search refers to the integration of content from specialized corpora or verticals into web search results. Aggregation improves search when the user has vertical intent...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Implicit feedback algorithms utilize interaction between searchers and search systems to learn more about users’ needs and interests than expressed in query statements alone. Th...
Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web documents – i.e., RDF or OWL documents. It analyzes the documents it discovered to compute useful m...
Li Ding, Timothy W. Finin, Anupam Joshi, Rong Pan,...