State-of-the-art Web search engines are inherently limited in their abilities to search information in Deep Web beyond portals. This paper discusses how Web services and Semantic-...
The Web has been the star service on the Internet, however the outsized information available and its decentralized nature has originated an intrinsic difficulty to locate, extract...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Formulating and executing queries over distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous resources is an important research area. The advent of the Internet and the Web and their inherent...
We propose the concept of research trails to help web users create and reestablish context across fragmented research processes without requiring them to explicitly structure and ...