The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
The MAPA system provides improved navigation facility for large web sites. It extracts a hierarchical structure from an arbitrary web site, with some minimal user assistance, and ...
To simplify the task of obtaining information from the vast number of information sources that are available on the World Wide Web (WWW), we are building tools to build informatio...
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld