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WEBI
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
2007
Springer
Search engines largely rely on robots (i.e., crawlers or spiders) to collect information from the Web. Such crawling activities can be regulated from the server side by deploying ...
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CIKM
2005
Springer
16 years 15 days ago
2005
Springer
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
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SIGECOM
2004
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
2004
ACM
In this paper, we combine two approaches to handling uncertainty: we use techniques for finding optimal solutions in the expected sense to solve combinatorial optimization proble...
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ECAI
2004
Springer
16 years 11 days ago
2004
Springer
Recent work has shown the promise in using local-search “probes” as a basis for directing a backtracking-based refinement search. In this approach, the decision about the next...
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SIGIR
2003
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
2003
ACM
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....