XML has become the most useful standard of data interchange in the web and e-business world and there is a large amount of information stored in this format. Nonetheless, a large ...
We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries durin...
Recently, inductive databases (IDBs) have been proposed to tackle the problem of knowledge discovery from huge databases. With an IDB, the user/analyst performs a set of very diffe...
Cross-language retrieval systems use queries in one natural language to guide retrieval of documents that might be written in another. Acquisition and representation of translation...
The use of lexical semantic knowledge in information retrieval has been a field of active study for a long time. Collaborative knowledge bases like Wikipedia and Wiktionary, which...