Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
We describe a system that provides query based associative access to the contents of distributed information servers. In typical distributed information systems there are so many o...
Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, James O'...
The power of search is with no doubt one of the main aspects for the success of the Web. Currently available search engines on the Web allow to return results with a high precisio...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identiļ¬cation of high-quality cont...