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Improving how people discover, understand, and use information through advances in search and retrieval.

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Mining Latent Entity Structures from Massive Unstructured and Interconnected Data

Jiawei Han, Chi Wang

Proceeding of 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data | June 2014

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CharBoxes: A System for Automatic Discovery of Character Infoboxes from Books

Manish Gupta

Proc. of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conf: Special Interest Group On Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | June 2014

Proc. of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conf: Special Interest Group On Information Retrieval (SIGIR)

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Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples

Yanyan Shen, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaudhuri, Bolin Ding, Lev Novik

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2014) | June 2014

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2014)

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Crowdsourcing a Subjective Labeling Task: A Human-Centered Framework to Ensure Reliable Results

Cathy Marshall

MSR-TR-2014-91 | June 2014

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Understanding and Improving Web Search Using Large-Scale Observations and Experiments

Susan Dumais

May 2014

APS (Association for Psychological Science) Invited Session on Big Data

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Toward Enhanced Pharmacovigilance Using Patient-Generated Data on the Internet

Ryen W. White, R Harpaz, W DuMouchel, Eric Horvitz

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics | May 2014

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Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Related Applications (Tutorial at ICASSP)

Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | May 2014

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Searching for Myself: Motivations and Strategies for Self-Search

Cathy Marshall, Siân Lindley

Proceedings of CHI 2014 | May 2014

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Selfsourcing Personal Tasks

Dan Liebling, Jaime Teevan, Walter S. Lasecki

Proceedings of CHI 2014 | April 2014

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