Web 2.0 technologies have enabled more and more people to freely comment on different kinds of entities (e.g. sellers, products, services). The large scale of information poses th...
Navigation is one of the most critical aspects of browsing pages in the World Wide Web. Users spend a significant amount of time moving from page to page in search of the desired ...
A vast amount of information is being stored in scientific databases on the web. The dynamic nature of the scientific data, the cost of providing an up-to-date snapshot of the wh...
Fatih Altiparmak, Ali Saman Tosun, Hakan Ferhatosm...
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
We study the problem of maintaining large replicated collections of files or documents in a distributed environment with limited bandwidth. This problem arises in a number of impo...