Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...
Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...
Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often i...
There has been a tremendous growth in the amount of information and resources on the World Wide Web that are useful to researchers and practitioners in science domains. While the ...
Michael Chau, Zan Huang, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Hs...
In this paper we describe our participation in CLEF-IP 2009 (prior art search task). This was the first year of the task and we focused on how to build effectively a prior art quer...