Improving Web search relevance with semantic features

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 648-657

  Lu, Yumao ^a   Peng, Fuchun ^a   Mishne, Gilad ^a   Wei, Xing ^a   Dumoulin, Benoit ^a  

^a YAHOO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; NAMED ENTITIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NLP TECHNIQUES; RANKING APPROACH; SEMANTIC FEATURES; TEXT-MATCHING; WEB SEARCHES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78651274195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699571.1699597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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