Answering General Time-Sensitive Queries (2009)
Wisam Dakka, Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
Time is an important dimension of relevance for a large number of searches, such as over blogs and news archives. So far, research on searching over such collections has largely focused on locating...
Yang, Yin, Bansal, Nilesh, Dakka, Wisam, Ipeirotis, Panagiotis, Koudas, Nick, Papadias, Dimitris
We are experiencing an unprecedented increase of content contributed by users in forums such as blogs, social networking sites and microblogging services. Such abundance of content complements...
Faceted Browsing over Large Databases of Text-Annotated Objects (2008)
We demonstrate a fully working system for multifaceted browsing over large collections of text-annotated data, such as annotated images, that are stored in relational databases. Typically, such...
Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Andrew Rosenberg, Wisam Dakka
Charisma, the ability to lead by virtue of personality alone, is difficult to define but relatively easy to identify. However, cultural factors clearly affect perceptions of charisma. In this paper...
Augmenting Wikipedia with Named Entity Tags (2008)
Wikipedia is the largest organized knowledge repository on the Web, increasingly employed by natural language processing and search tools. In this paper, we investigate the task of labeling Wikipedia...
Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Andrew Rosenberg, Wisam Dakka
Charisma, the ability to lead by virtue of personality alone, is difficult to define but relatively easy to identify. However, cultural factors clearly affect perceptions of charisma. In this paper...
ABSTRACT Automatic Discovery of Useful Facet Terms (2008)
Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users locate items of...
ABSTRACT Efficient Summarization-Aware Search for Online News Articles (2008)
News portals gather and organize news articles published daily on the Internet. Typically, news articles are clustered into “events” and each cluster is displayed with a short description of its...
Automatic extraction of useful facet hierarchies from text databases (2008)
Wisam Dakka, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
Abstract — Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users locate...
Automatic construction of multifaceted browsing interfaces (2005)
Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users locate items of...