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Generating hypotheses from the web

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Wei Jin,

Rohini Srihari,

Abhishek SinghAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '08: Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web

Pages 1211 - 1212

https://doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367731

Published: 21 April 2008 Publication History

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Hypothesis generation is a crucial initial step for making scientific discoveries. This paper addresses the problem of automatically discovering interesting hypotheses from the web. Given a query containing one or two entities of interest, our algorithm automatically generates a semantic profile describing the specified entity or provides the potential connections between two entities of interest. We implemented a prototype on top of the Google search engine and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithms.

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Jin WWu XHuang JKoudas NJones GWu XCollins-Thompson KAn A(2010)Discovering, ranking and annotating cross-document relationships between conceptsProceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/1871437.1871768(1929-1930)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1871437.1871768

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Generating hypotheses from the web
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Information retrieval query processing

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WWW '08: Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web

April 2008

1326 pages

ISBN:9781605580852

DOI:10.1145/1367497

General Chairs:
Jinpeng Huai
Beihang University, China
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Robin Chen
AT&T Labs, USA
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Hsiao-Wuen Hon
Microsoft Research Asia, China
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Yunhao Liu
HK University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
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Program Chairs:
Wei-Ying Ma
Microsoft Research Asia, China
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Andrew Tomkins
Yahoo! Research, USA
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Xiaodong Zhang
The Ohio State University, USA

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Nugent TLeidner J(2016)Risk Mining: Company-Risk Identification from Unstructured Sources2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)10.1109/ICDMW.2016.0191(1308-1311)Online publication date: Dec-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2016.0191
Yan PJin W(2015)Improving Cross-Document Knowledge Discovery Through Content and Link Analysis of Wikipedia KnowledgeTransactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXI10.1007/978-3-662-47804-2_8(161-184)Online publication date: 17-Jul-2015
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47804-2_8
Jin WWu XHuang JKoudas NJones GWu XCollins-Thompson KAn A(2010)Discovering, ranking and annotating cross-document relationships between conceptsProceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/1871437.1871768(1929-1930)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1871437.1871768

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