On improving Web search

Anubhav Kale will present a synopsis of two papers in the broad area of improving web search. Exploiting Semantic Association To Answer Vague Queries takes an approach of using "relatedness" of keywords to generate accurate search results for vague queries. Ranking Complex Relationships on the Semantic Web explores the challenges in ranking relationships on semantic web and proposes a model for the same. If time permits, he will talk in brief about his summer internship at ITA Software.